जामित्र
Jāmitra

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Sanskrit

Last edited: 2026-01-06
Primary meaning seventh astrological mansion
Literal translation seventh astrological mansion
Edited by
the 7th lunar mansion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)

लग्नाद्गृहं सप्तममस्तगं तु जामित्रसंज्ञं यवनाभिधानम् । विलग्नभावात्तु नभस्तलस्थं मेषूरणाख्यं दशमं वदन्ति ॥४९॥

lagnādgṛhaṃ saptamamastagaṃ tu jāmitrasaṃjñaṃ yavanābhidhānam | vilagnabhāvāttu nabhastalasthaṃ meṣūraṇākhyaṃ daśamaṃ vadanti ||49||

‘The seventh astrological mansion from the lagna, situated in the descendent, it is called jāmitra in Yavanas vocabulary. The tenth zodiac sign from the house of the lagna, situated in the lower part of heaven (10th house), they say it is called meṣūraṇa’

— Yavanajātaka 1.49

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: India
Date: 4th-6th century CE

Pingree, David. The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 48. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 52

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2026). जामित्र (Lemma #6391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/
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Malhotra, P. (2026). जामित्र (Lemma #6391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/
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Malhotra, P. (2026). जामित्र (Lemma #6391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/
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Malhotra, P. (2026) जामित्र (Lemma #6391), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6391,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2026},
	title = {जामित्र ({Lemma} #6391)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/},
}