जामित्र

Jāmitra

Sanskrit · noun

Edited by: Poorvaa Malhotra
Last edited: 2026-01-06

Meanings

1. seventh astrological mansion

Literal translation

the 7th lunar mansion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)

1. seventh astrological mansion

1.a seventh astrological mansion

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

Cite this entry

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/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Malhotra, P. (2026). जामित्र (Lemma #6391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/

MLA (9th)

Malhotra, P. (2026). जामित्र (Lemma #6391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/

Harvard

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: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac6391,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2026},
	title = {जामित्र ({Lemma} #6391)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6391/},
}