Nakṣatra 25 of 27
Pūrva Bhādrapadā · पूर्व भाद्रपदा
The lunar mansion 20°00′ Kumbha – 3°20′ Meena of the sidereal zodiac — its presiding deity as the Garuḍa Purāṇa states it, its Vimśottarī lord as the engine computes it, and the Purāṇic passages that actually name it. Cited context; never a forecast.
Position · sidereal
20°00′ Kumbha – 3°20′ Meena
in Kumbha and Meena · Lahiri ayanāṃśa
Devatā · presiding deity
Aja Ekapāda
the one-footed goat, a form of Rudra — Garuḍa Purāṇa garp_1,59.8
Vimśottarī lord
Guru
Jupiter · 16-year daśā
The four pādas of Pūrva Bhādrapadā
Each nakṣatra spans 13°20′, divided into four quarters of 3°20′. A pāda’s navāṃśa (the ninth division, D9) is what a chart reading leans on when the birth time is known — computed here, not asserted.
Pāda 1
20°00′ – 23°20′ Kumbha
navāṃśa Mesha
Pāda 2
23°20′ – 26°40′ Kumbha
navāṃśa Mesha
Pāda 3
26°40′ – 29°60′ Kumbha
navāṃśa Mithuna
Pāda 4
0°00′ – 3°20′ Meena
navāṃśa Karka
Pūrva Bhādrapadā in the aṣṭakūṭa reckoning
Gaṇa
manushya
the human temperament — balanced, striving, worldly
Yoni
lion
the animal token used when two charts are matched
Nāḍī
adi
first — the vāta channel in Āyurvedic pairing
Standard aṣṭakūṭa tradition (BPHS-derived), uniform across classical practice — not from this project's Purāṇic corpus, and not cited as if it were.
Where the Purāṇas name Pūrva Bhādrapadā
Verbatim passages from this project’s own tagged astrology corpus — saṁhitā, muhūrta and calendrical contexts that mention the star. Supplementary context from the texts, not personality claims or predictions.
garp_1,59.8 । ājaṃ bhādrapadā pūrvā ahirbrudhnyastathottarā । pauṣṇaṃ ca revatī ṛkṣamaśvayukcāśvadaivatam ॥