Nitya Yoga
The nitya yoga is the fourth limb of the panchanga: add the longitudes of the Sun and the Moon, divide by thirteen degrees twenty minutes, and the quotient names one of twenty-seven yogas running from Vishkambha and Priti through Vyatipata and Vaidhriti.
This is emphatically not the yoga of the yoga-kind entries in this file: a nitya yoga is a positional quantity in the panchanga with a fixed list of twenty-seven names, while a yoga such as Gaja Kesari or a Raja yoga is a named planetary combination in a natal chart. The two uses of the word are unrelated, and the coincidence of the name Vyatipata in both lists (and in the upagrahas) is the commonest confusion in the tradition.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- the 27 yogaspanchanga yogaNityayogathe Sun-Moon yoga
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- नित्ययोग
- English
- the daily yoga of the Sun and Moon
- Meaning
The nitya yoga is the fourth limb of the panchanga: add the longitudes of the Sun and the Moon, divide by thirteen degrees twenty minutes, and the quotient names one of twenty-seven yogas running from Vishkambha and Priti through Vyatipata and Vaidhriti. It is a property of the day, not of a person's chart, and it is one of the five things an electional judgement reads.
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