Sadhana | Practice |
Sadydrishta | Death within one year |
Sahottha | Third house |
Sama | One year |
Samayajala Samriddhi | Three signs from the Moon are of rising ebb. The next three fall or flow. Then three ebb or rise The last three fall or flow |
Sampal | The second star from the birth star |
Sandhi | Junctional points. These are (a) the first and the last 24 minute of a lunar day and star, (b) the first and the last 2 minutes of a sign; and (c) the first and the last 24 seconds of a Navamsa |
Sani | Saturn. Rules tendons and wind |
Sanjna | Technical terms |
Saakalpa | The desire with which one undertakes to perform a rite |
Sankhabhisheka | Sprinkling ritual water on the Deity through a conch |
Sankhapusbpa | A plant |
Sankranti | Solar ingren into a sign |
Sannipata | Combined disorder of the three humours of the body causing dangerous fever |
Saptavarga | Rasi, Hora, Drekkana, Saptamsa, Navamsa, Dvadasamsa and Trimsamsa |
Sarasvati | Goddess of learning |
Sarat | Autumn |
Sariba | Kusa or sacred grass |
Sarirottha | Bodily ailment |
Saipabali | Sacrificial offering to propitiate the serpent Deity |
Sarpa Drekkana | The first decanate of Scorpio and the last ones of Cancer and Pisces |
Sarpa Siras | The second half of Vyatipata Yoga |
Sarvashtakavarga | A method whereby the strength or weakness of a planet or a house can be found out |
Saita | Ayyappa who is both Siva and Vishnu |
Sayana | Tropical Zodiac. Deduct Ayanamsa to get the sidereal zodiac |
Saumyagraha | Mild or benefic spirit |
Shadvarga | The same as Saptavarga minus Saptavarga |
Siddhartha | White mustard |
Siddhi | Obtaining mastery of a maatra |
Sighra Varga | Asvini, Hasta, Pushyami |
Simha | Leo; Lion |
Simhavalokana | A leap in Kalachakra system from Pisces to Scorpio |
Sindhuttha | A plant |
Sirshodaya | The signs are Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Aquarius |
Sisira | Winter |
Sivabhuta | Spirit attending on Siva |
Skandha | A branch of astronomy |
Sopha | Swelling, tumour |
Soshani | Drying up |
Sphuta | Correct longitude. Add the longitudes of the Ascendant, the Moon and Mandi to get Trisphuta. Add this to the Sun's to get Chatusphuta. Add this to Rahu to have Pancbasphuta |
Sraddha | Offering to the dead ancestors on the day of their death |
Sprishtanga | The sign corresponding to the organ touched by the querist |
Srishti | Asvini is creative (srishti) constellation. Bharani is the sustaining one (sthiti). Krittika is the destructive one (sambara). The series are in this order |
Sthira | Fixed signs |
Stunga | The numeral 74 |
Subba | Ninth house |
Subhakartari | Plane; or house having benefics on both sides |
Subrahmanya | A Deity, son of Siva |
Sudarsana | The mantra for Vishnu |
Sudhapayas | Milk in the form of nectar |
Sukla | Seminal fluid |
Sukra | Venus. Rules seminal fluid, wind and phlegm |
Sukshma Trisphuta | This is obtained by adding Prana, Deha and Mrityu sphutas |
Sulacakra | Allocation of constellations with reference to the constellation through which the Sun is passing at birth or query |
Sulapaitachi | A demon that caures suffering and pain |
Sutra | Thread; aphorism. Ordinary (anya) Sutra is determined by the ascendant. The ownership (Adhipati) Sutra is to be noted by the lords of the ascendant at birth and at the time of query Amsaka Sutra is arrived at from the Navamsa Lagna. Nakshatra Sutra is calculated by the birth star of the questioner and the asterism at the time of query. Mahasutra is worked out by Arudha and the tenth from it. These are respectively earthy, watery, fiery, aerial and ethereal |
Sva | Second house |
Svasana | Gasping |
Svastha | Doing well. A question about health. |
Svayambhu | Brahma the creator. |
Svayathu | Dropsy |