Indrachapa
Indrachapa is the fourth of the Sun-derived upagrahas: subtract Parivesha from 360 degrees and the result is Indrachapa, Indra's bow, the rainbow. It is malefic, though of the five it is the one the texts treat most mildly, and it is read for the bhava it occupies.
BPHS ch. 25 calls it simply Chapa, the bow, and adds Indra Dhanus as the gloss; the corpus uses Indrachapa as the heading and records Chapa as the classical form. Like the other four it is a computed point with no body, no dasha and no propitiation.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- ChapaIndradhanushIndra's bowthe rainbow
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- इन्द्रचाप
- English
- Indra's bow, the rainbow; the fourth Sun-derived upagraha
- Meaning
Indrachapa is the fourth of the Sun-derived upagrahas: subtract Parivesha from 360 degrees and the result is Indrachapa, Indra's bow, the rainbow. It is malefic, though of the five it is the one the texts treat most mildly, and it is read for the bhava it occupies.
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