Nakshatra 17 of 27
Anuradhaअनुराधा
3°20' Scorpio – 16°40' Scorpio sidereal
Mitra, god of friendship. Associated with devotion and with the ability to work alongside others; one of the gentler nakshatras in the classical descriptions.
Classical attributes
Used directly in compatibility scoring
- Ruling planet
- Saturn
- Deity
- Mitra
- Symbol
- Lotus
- Gana
- DevaTemperament group
- Yoni
- Deer (female)
- Nadi
- MadhyaConstitutional humour
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Fire
- Nature
- Soft
The four padas
Each quarter falls in a different navamsha sign
- Pada 1
- Scorpio3°20' Scorpio – 6°40' Scorpio
- Pada 2
- Scorpio6°40' Scorpio – 10°00' Scorpio
- Pada 3
- Scorpio10°00' Scorpio – 13°20' Scorpio
- Pada 4
- Scorpio13°20' Scorpio – 16°40' Scorpio
What this nakshatra decides in a chart
If the Moon sits here at birth, Anuradha is the birth nakshatra — and it fixes the entire Vimshottari dasha sequence. The first mahadasha is Saturn's, and how far the Moon had travelled into these 13.33° decides how much of it had already elapsed before birth. Every dasha date in the chart follows from that one number.
The gana, yoni and nadi above are not decorative. They are read directly in Ashtakoota matching, where nadi alone carries eight of the thirty-six points.