Nakshatra 26 of 27
Uttara Bhadrapadaउत्तर भाद्रपद
3°20' Pisces – 16°40' Pisces sidereal
Ahir Budhnya, the serpent of the deep. Associated with depth, patience and a settled interior life; one of the most stable of the twenty-seven.
Classical attributes
Used directly in compatibility scoring
- Ruling planet
- Saturn
- Deity
- Ahir Budhnya
- Symbol
- Back of a funeral cot
- Gana
- ManushyaTemperament group
- Yoni
- Cow (female)
- Nadi
- MadhyaConstitutional humour
- Varna
- Kshatriya
- Element
- Ether
- Nature
- Fixed
The four padas
Each quarter falls in a different navamsha sign
- Pada 1
- Pisces3°20' Pisces – 6°40' Pisces
- Pada 2
- Pisces6°40' Pisces – 10°00' Pisces
- Pada 3
- Pisces10°00' Pisces – 13°20' Pisces
- Pada 4
- Pisces13°20' Pisces – 16°40' Pisces
What this nakshatra decides in a chart
If the Moon sits here at birth, Uttara Bhadrapada 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.