Vyatipata
Vyatipata is the second of the Sun-derived upagrahas: subtract Dhuma from 360 degrees (add 226 degrees 40 minutes to it) and the result is Vyatipata. The name means a great calamity, and the upagraha is read as the point of sudden disaster in the bhava it occupies.
The name is used for two different things and the overlap is a real trap: Vyatipata is also the name of the seventeenth of the twenty-seven nitya yogas, the panchanga limb computed from the combined longitude of the Sun and Moon (see the nitya_yoga entry). The upagraha and the nitya yoga share a name and are computed from different quantities; the corpus records both rather than merging them.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Vyatipalathe calamity pointVipata
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- व्यतीपात
- English
- calamity; the second of the Sun-derived upagrahas
- Meaning
Vyatipata is the second of the Sun-derived upagrahas: subtract Dhuma from 360 degrees (add 226 degrees 40 minutes to it) and the result is Vyatipata. The name means a great calamity, and the upagraha is read as the point of sudden disaster in the bhava it occupies.
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