Panchang — Sunday, 2 December 2029

What Chitra is said to favour

a sharp day: good for the difficult thing, poor for the delicate oneChitra is listed among the sharp asterisms; the chapter reserves them for hard, cutting work — Agni Purāṇa 126.11–16

Suited to what the chapter gives this face: the chapter gives it building, planting, raising a banner.Chitra is lateral-faced — Agni Purāṇa 126.17–28

Where the grahas stood

Sidereal longitudes (Lahiri ayanāṃśa) computed for this date from the JPL ephemeris — the same numbers every other reading here is built on.

What the texts say of Chitra

nṛpādaḥ kīṭapaśavo balāḍhyāḥ kendragāḥ kramāt // narp_1,55.11 // kendrātparaṃ paṇapharamāpoklimamataḥ param / raktaḥ śvetaḥ śukanibhaḥ pāṭalo dhūmrapāṇḍurau // narp_1,55.12 // citraḥ kṛṣṇaḥ pītapiṅgau babhruḥ svacchaḥ prabhākriyāt / sāmyāśākhyaplavatvaṃ syāddvitīye vaśirarkabhāt // narp_1,55.13 //

citraḥ kṛṣṇaḥ pītapiṅgau babhruḥ svacchaḥ prabhākriyāt / sāmyāśākhyaplavatvaṃ syāddvitīye vaśirarkabhāt // narp_1,55.13 // kālātmārke manaścadraḥ kujaḥ satvaṃ vacobudhaḥ / jīvo jñānaṃ sukhaṃ śukraḥ kāmo duḥkhaṃ dineśajaḥ // narp_1,55.14 // nṛpau ravīndū netāsṛk kumāro jñaḥ kavījyakau /

Chitra nakṣatra — devatā, lord, and every cited source →