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नक्षत्रेऽदितिदैवत्ये Aditidaivatya nakṣatra

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Mahābhārata & Rāmāyaṇa · Bāla Kāṇḍa is late (c. 1st–3rd c. CE); this astrological verse is later still, being a vulgate expansion absent from the critically constituted text

नक्षत्रेऽदितिदैवत्ये स्वोच्चसंस्थेषु पञ्चसु । ग्रहेषु कर्कटे लग्ने वाक्पताविन्दुना सह ॥१-१८-९॥

VULGATE ONLY. Verbatim from Sanskrit Wikisource, Rāmāyaṇam / Bālakāṇḍam / Sargaḥ 18, verse 9 (fetched via action=raw). The Critical Edition sarga 1.17 does not contain it. Vulgate sarga 18 = CE sarga 17.

Griffith: 'The moon within that mansion shone / Which Aditi looks kindly on. / Raised to their apex in the sky / Five brilliant planets beamed on high. / Shone with the moon, in Cancer's sign, / Vrihaspati with light divine.' Dutt: 'in the twelfth month, on the ninth lunar day, under the influence of the Punarvasu asterism, when the Sun, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus were at Aries, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer, and Pisces,—and when Jupiter had arisen with the Moon at Cancer, Kausalyā gave birth to that lord of the universe.' — Ralph T. H. Griffith (1870-74) and Manmatha Nath Dutt (1892)

Rāma's birth-star, named periphrastically by its presiding deity: 'in the asterism whose deity is ADITI' = Punarvasu, whose devatā is Aditi in every nakṣatra-devatā list. Griffith's note is explicit: 'Aditi, the mother of the Gods, is lady of the seventh lunar mansion which is called Punarvasu.' CRITICAL TEXTUAL POINT, and the reason this is recorded separately: THE VERSE IS NOT IN THE CRITICAL EDITION. The GRETIL Critical Edition text at R_1,017.006 reads simply 'kausalyājanayad rāmaṃ divyalakṣaṇasaṃyutam' with no date, no lagna and no nakṣatra, and a search of the whole CE file for 'aditidaivat' returns zero hits. The astrological frame — Caitra, the ninth tithi, the Aditi-asterism, five planets exalted, Cancer rising, Jupiter with the moon — belongs to the vulgate (Bāla Kāṇḍa 18.8-10), quoted here from Sanskrit Wikisource. The same vulgate passage gives Bharata's Puṣya and the twins' Sārpa (18.15). Anyone citing 'Rāmāyaṇa Bāla 18' for Rāma's birth-star must say they are citing the vulgate.

Rāmāyaṇa (VULGATE) Bāla Kāṇḍa 18.9; absent from the Critical Edition, whose parallel is 1.17.6 · text · translation