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Pushya nakshatra
Associated with nourishment, care and steady support; tradition often calls it the most auspicious star.
- Number
- 8 of 27
- Hindi
- पुष्य
- Span
- 3°20′ Cancer to 16°40′ Cancer
- Sign(s)
- Cancer
- Ruled by
- Saturn (dasha lord, 19 years)
- Deity
- Brihaspati, the teacher of the gods
- Symbol
- a cow's udder or a lotus
A person born with the Moon in Pushya begins life in the dasha of Saturn. 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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