Panchang — Monday, 9 February 2026

What Vishakha is said to favour

a sharp day: good for the difficult thing, poor for the delicate oneVishakha 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 digging, foundations, medicine, teaching.Vishakha is downward-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 Vishakha

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 //

candreśāditijīvāhipitaro bhagasaṃjñakaḥ / aryamārkatvaṣṭṛmarucchakrāgnimitravāsavaḥ // narp_1,56.169 // nairṛtyudakaviśvejagovindavasutoyapāḥ / ajaikapādahirbudhnyā pūṣā ceti prakīrtitāḥ // narp_1,56.170 // pūrvātrayaṃ madhāhyagniviśākhāya mamūlabham /

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