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Nitya Deepam

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12 రాశులు

A rashi is a thirty-degree division of the sidereal zodiac. Twelve of them make the circle, and every position a panchangam prints — the sun's, the moon's, the boundary of a nakshatra — is stated as a distance measured from the start of the first.

That is the whole of what a rashi is: a unit of measurement with a name. These pages give the classical attributes attached to each — ruling planet, element, modality, symbol — along with the nakshatras it spans and, more usefully, where it actually turns up in the daily reading.

There are two such places. The sun's rashi names the solar month and fixes every sankranti festival: Makara Sankranti is the sun entering Makara, and Dhanurmasam is the month he spends crossing Dhanus. The moon's rashi is the chandra rashi or janma rashi, the one a family reckons a birth by. Neither is a prediction, and you will not find one here.