केन्द्र
Kendra

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Sanskrit

Last edited: 2026-01-16
Primary meaning angle
Literal translation centre
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Angle

Refers to houses 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th. The house 1 (Ascendant) rises and 7 (Descendant) sets in the ecliptic, and 4 and 10, is lowest and highest points respectively

चतुर्विलग्नं प्रवदन्ति केन्द्रं ततः परं पाणफरं तु योगम् । आपोक्लिमाख्यं तु तृतीयमाहुर्लग्नाश्रयैषा त्रिविधैव संज्ञा ॥५३॥

caturvilagnaṃ pravadanti kendraṃ tataḥ paraṃ pāṇapharaṃ tu yogam | āpoklimākhyaṃ tu tṛtīyamāhurlagnāśrayaiṣā trividhaiva saṃjñā ||53||

‘The four houses (Caturvilagna) from the ascendant are called Kendra (angles). The houses following them are known as Pāṇaphara. The third group is called Āpoklima. The house from the lagna is called the Trividhā (three divisions).’

— Yavanajātaka 1.53

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 53

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2026). केन्द्र (Lemma #6397). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6397/
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Malhotra, P. (2026). केन्द्र (Lemma #6397). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6397/
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Malhotra, P. (2026) केन्द्र (Lemma #6397), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6397/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
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@misc{zodiac6397,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2026},
	title = {केन्द्र ({Lemma} #6397)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6397/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6397/},
}