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Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
Associated with intensity, austerity and a fiery, transformative idealism.
- Number
- 25 of 27
- Hindi
- पूर्वभाद्रपद
- Span
- 20°00′ Aquarius to 3°20′ Pisces
- Sign(s)
- Aquarius and Pisces
- Ruled by
- Jupiter (dasha lord, 16 years)
- Deity
- Aja Ekapada, the one-footed goat
- Symbol
- the front legs of a funeral cot
A person born with the Moon in Purva Bhadrapada begins life in the dasha of Jupiter. How much of that period remains at birth depends on how far the Moon had travelled through the star. See dasha.
The four padas
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