Gandanta
Gandanta is the junction of a water sign and a fire sign: the last three degrees twenty minutes (the last navamsha) of Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces, and the first three degrees twenty minutes of Leo, Sagittarius or Aries.
The three gandanta points are exactly the three nakshatra junctions Ashlesha-Magha, Jyeshtha-Mula and Revati-Ashvini, so the doctrine is also read as the joining of the nakshatras and not only of the signs. The classical remedy is the gandanta shanti and the propitiation of the nakshatra lords at the junction; the tradition treats a gandanta birth as requiring ritual attention rather than as a verdict, which is worth recording beside the severity of the classical language.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Gandantathe knotjala-agri sandhi
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- गण्डान्त
- English
- the knot; the water-to-fire sign junction
- Meaning
Gandanta is the junction of a water sign and a fire sign: the last three degrees twenty minutes (the last navamsha) of Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces, and the first three degrees twenty minutes of Leo, Sagittarius or Aries. BPHS defines it by the last navamsha of the three water signs, and a graha, the lagna or the Moon in it is one of the classical evils at birth.
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