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Shatabhisha, also known as Chathayam or Sadayam (
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ...
: शतभिषा, ta, சதயம், ml, ചതയം), or ''Shatabhishak'' or ''Shatataraka'' is the 24th ''
nakshatra'' in Hindu astronomy. It corresponds to the star
γ Aquarii.
Varuna
Varuna (; sa, वरुण, , Malay: ''Baruna'') is a Vedic deity associated initially with the sky, later also with the seas as well as Ṛta (justice) and Satya (truth). He is found in the oldest layer of Vedic literature of Hinduism, such ...
is the deity of this nakshatra. The ruling planet of this nakshatra is
Rahu
Rāhu (Sanskrit: राहु, 16px, ☊) is one of the nine major celestial bodies (navagraha) in Hindu texts and the king of meteors. It represents the ascension of the moon in its precessional orbit around the earth, also referred as the ...
.
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Nakshatra