Nakshatra 7 of 27
Punarvasuपुनर्वसु
20°00' Gemini – 3°20' Cancer sidereal
Aditi, the boundless mother. The name means 'good again' — the tradition associates it with return and recovery, with things being restored after they have been lost.
Classical attributes
Used directly in compatibility scoring
- Ruling planet
- Jupiter
- Deity
- Aditi
- Symbol
- Quiver of arrows
- Gana
- DevaTemperament group
- Yoni
- Cat (female)
- Nadi
- AdiConstitutional humour
- Varna
- Vaishya
- Element
- Water
- Nature
- Movable
The four padas
Each quarter falls in a different navamsha sign
- Pada 1
- Gemini20°00' Gemini – 23°20' Gemini
- Pada 2
- Gemini23°20' Gemini – 26°40' Gemini
- Pada 3
- Gemini26°40' Gemini – 0°00' Cancer
- Pada 4
- Cancer0°00' Cancer – 3°20' Cancer
What this nakshatra decides in a chart
If the Moon sits here at birth, Punarvasu is the birth nakshatra — and it fixes the entire Vimshottari dasha sequence. The first mahadasha is Jupiter'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.