Nakshatra 22 of 27
Shravanaश्रवण
10°00' Capricorn – 23°20' Capricorn sidereal
Vishnu, and the ear. Listening and learning by hearing; the nakshatra most associated with study, tradition and receiving knowledge accurately.
Classical attributes
Used directly in compatibility scoring
- Ruling planet
- Moon
- Deity
- Vishnu
- Symbol
- Ear
- Gana
- DevaTemperament group
- Yoni
- Monkey (female)
- Nadi
- AntyaConstitutional humour
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Air
- Nature
- Movable
The four padas
Each quarter falls in a different navamsha sign
- Pada 1
- Capricorn10°00' Capricorn – 13°20' Capricorn
- Pada 2
- Capricorn13°20' Capricorn – 16°40' Capricorn
- Pada 3
- Capricorn16°40' Capricorn – 20°00' Capricorn
- Pada 4
- Capricorn20°00' Capricorn – 23°20' Capricorn
What this nakshatra decides in a chart
If the Moon sits here at birth, Shravana is the birth nakshatra — and it fixes the entire Vimshottari dasha sequence. The first mahadasha is Moon'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.