What degrees does Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra cover?

320° to 333.33° of the sidereal zodiac — mansion number 25 of 27. In the tropical zodiac used in the West those degrees fall about 24° earlier, which is the ayanamsa.

Which planet rules Purva Bhadrapada?

Jupiter, which gives it a 16-year Vimshottari dasha period. If the Moon was in this mansion when you were born, that is the period your life opened with.

What are the four padas of Purva Bhadrapada?

Each pada is 3°20′ wide: pada 1 from 320°, pada 2 from 323.33°, pada 3 from 326.67°, pada 4 from 330°. The pada determines the navamsa placement.

Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra: Degrees, Padas, Ruler and Dasha Length

The classification

Symbol A funeral cot, two front legs

Presiding deity Aja Ekapada, the one-footed goat

Gana — temperament Manushya

Yoni — animal Lion

Caste Priest

The arithmetic

Sidereal degrees 320° – 333.33°

Ruling planet Jupiter

Vimshottari dasha length 16 years

Mean time the Moon spends here 24.81 hours

Rank by duration 3 of 27

The four padas

Each pada is exactly 3°20′ wide and decides the navamsa placement. Most calculators give you the nakshatra and stop — the pada is where the reading actually narrows.

Pada 1 320° – 323.33°

Pada 2 323.33° – 326.67°

Pada 3 326.67° – 330°

Pada 4 330° – 333.33°

How long the Moon really stays

Every source rounds this to “about a day”. Computed over 48,205 sampled positions between 2020 and 2030, the Moon spends an average of 24.81 hours in Purva Bhadrapada — against a mean of 24.29 hours across all 27, making this the 3rd longest mansion of the cycle.

The mansions are equal in space and unequal in time, because the Moon moves faster near perigee. The ordering shifts slowly as the line of apsides rotates, on a cycle of about 8.85 years — so read this as a current figure, not a fixed property.

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Reading Purva Bhadrapada

The traditional reading centres on severity and transformation; ideals held hard enough to hurt. The symbol — A funeral cot, two front legs — carries most of the interpretive weight, and the presiding deity, Aja Ekapada, the one-footed goat, sets the register in which it is read.

Its gana is Manushya, which in the classical matching system describes temperament rather than character: human — mixed, self-interested, and neither of the extremes. The yoni, Lion, is used for compatibility between two charts, where certain animal pairings are held to be hostile regardless of anything else in the reading.

Where this comes from. These attributes are recorded in the classical texts and passed down; they are traditional classifications, not observations, and no part of them has been tested. The one element with mechanical consequence is the ruler, Jupiter, because it sets a 16-year dasha — and that is arithmetic you can check on the calculator.

Also ruled by Jupiter

The nine rulers repeat every nine mansions, so each governs three — and each gives the same 16-year dasha.

Punarvasu A quiver of arrows Vishakha A triumphal arch

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