Nakṣatra 16 of 27
Viśākhā · विशाखा
The lunar mansion 20°00′ Tula – 3°20′ Vrishchika 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′ Tula – 3°20′ Vrishchika
in Tula and Vrishchika · Lahiri ayanāṃśa
Devatā · presiding deity
Indra–Agni
the paired king and fire of the gods — Garuḍa Purāṇa garp_1,59.5
Vimśottarī lord
Guru
Jupiter · 16-year daśā
The four pādas of Viśākhā
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′ Tula
navāṃśa Mesha
Pāda 2
23°20′ – 26°40′ Tula
navāṃśa Vrishabha
Pāda 3
26°40′ – 29°60′ Tula
navāṃśa Vrishabha
Pāda 4
0°00′ – 3°20′ Vrishchika
navāṃśa Karka
Viśākhā in the aṣṭakūṭa reckoning
Gaṇa
rakshasa
the fierce temperament — forceful, independent, hard to move
Yoni
tiger
the animal token used when two charts are matched
Nāḍī
antya
last — the kapha channel
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 Viśākhā
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_1,59.4 । svātī ca vāyudevatyā nakṣatraṃ parikīrtitam । indrāgnidevatā proktā viśākhā vṛṣabhadhvaja ॥
āṣāḍhadvayamūlendradhiṣṇyānāṃ yāmyagaḥ śaśī // narp_1,56.20 // agnipradasteyacaravanasarpavināśakṛt / viśākhā mitrayoryāmyapārśvagaḥ pāpagaḥ śaśī // narp_1,56.21 // madhyamaḥ pitṛdaivatye dvidaive saimyagaḥ śaśī / aprāpyapauṣṇabhādrāmadukṣāviśaśī śubhaḥ // narp_1,56.22 //
garp_1,59.16 । vastraprāvaraṇe śreṣṭho nakṣatrāṇāṃ gaṇaḥ smṛtaḥ । kṛttikā bharaṇyaśleṣā maghā mūlaviśākhayoḥ ॥