nakshatra
nakṣatraA lunar mansion, one of the twenty-seven divisions of the sky through which the moon passes in its monthly circuit; with the tithi, a foundation of jyotisha and of the panchanga.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
The eyes of the moon Before the zodiac there were the nakshatras , and they are the older, more Indian sky.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
Chandra married the twenty-seven daughters of Daksha, and the twenty-seven are the nakshatras , the lunar mansions, the twenty-seven segments of sky the Moon moves through in a month.
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
Each takes its name from the nakshatra , the lunar mansion, near which the full moon of that month falls.
- The Monsoon and the Midnight Birth Treatise
They want the moon in Rohini , the nakshatra Krishna was born under, and because the eighth tithi and the star Rohini do not always fall on the same night, the festival is sometimes kept on two consecutive days…
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
… Aditi looks kindly on." The ninth tithi of Chaitra , the moon in the nakshatra of Punarvasu that the goddess Aditi favours, the hour of midday: the poem fixes the birth by tithi and star and hour, exactly as a…