नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 24 of 27 · 6°40′–20°00′ Kumbha
शतभिषा Śatabhiṣā(Shatabhisha)
Data
| Span | 6°40′–20°00′ Kumbha |
|---|---|
| Lord | राहु Rāhu |
| Deity | Varuṇa, keeper of cosmic law and the deep waters |
| Symbol | An empty circle; a hundred physicians or a hundred stars |
| Gana | rakshasa |
| Temperament | Movable and veiled (chara) — the healer who works behind the circle. |
Shatabhisha, 'a hundred healers', is the mansion of vast systems and secret medicine: these natives perceive what large structures — bodies, societies, networks — hide, and they heal at scale. Solitude restores them rather than isolating them; their circle-symbol marks a protected inner space from which unusually original, even visionary, work emerges.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dhanu navāṁśa (Jupiter): the philosophical healer — diagnosis guided by big-picture truth. |
| 2 | Makara navāṁśa (Saturn): the systems physician — discipline applied to structural repair. |
| 3 | Kumbha navāṁśa (Saturn): the pure scientist — vargottama-like depth of originality and research. |
| 4 | Mīna navāṁśa (Jupiter): the mystic healer — intuition completing what analysis began. |
Sources
- Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5Taittiriya Brahmana 1.5 (with parallels in Taittiriya Samhita 4.4.10 and Atharva Veda 19.7): the Vedic nakshatra lists with their presiding deities. Vedic corpus, public domain.
- BPHS, Chs. 46–49Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Chs. 46–49 (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the Vimshottari dasha as the foremost dasha system — sequence and years (Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19, Mercury 17; total 120), effects of each graha's dasha, and antardasha doctrine. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- BPHS, Ch. 6Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Ch. 6 'The Sixteen Divisions of a Rashi' (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the navamsa (D9) scheme underlying the pada framework — each pada of 3°20′ is one navamsa. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- Nakshatra traditionCommon Jyotish nakshatra doctrine — symbols, the deva/manushya/rakshasa gana classification, and temperament — standardized across muhurta and jataka manuals and consistent from the medieval synthesis treatises (e.g., Jataka Parijata) onward. Editorial synthesis in our own words; no copyrighted translation reproduced.