A Living Instrument

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One belt of sky, measured two ways at once — twelve rāśis of the Sun, twenty-seven nakṣatras of the Moon. Drag the Moon and watch both readings turn.
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The pāda (¼ of a nakṣatra, 3°20′) is the common measure: 9 fill a rāśi, 4 fill a nakṣatra — 108 to the whole circle. It is where the two skies reconcile.
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