A constellation in a section of the east.

The name of a lunar asterism. Its chief star is known as Delta Cancri in the occidental tradition.

“Flourish.” The asterism of the star located at the head of the constellation Cancer.

The sixth (sometimes the eighth) lunar asterism.

The name of a lunar mansion and a lunar month.

One of the twenty-eight asterisms or constellations that the sun passes through during the course of a year, which are “lunar mansions” in the plane of the sky. It is composed of three star systems: Gamma Cancri, Delta Cancri, and Theta Cancri. In the Western zodiac it is equivalent to the very end of Cancer and nearly half of Leo‍—in other words, the end of July and the first part of August.

One of the twenty-eight asterisms or constellations that the sun passes through during the course of a year, which are “lunar mansions” in the plane of the sky. It is composed of the three star systems: Gamma Cancri, Delta Cancri, and Theta Cancri. In the Western zodiac it is equivalent to the very end of Cancer and nearly half of Leo‍—in other words, the end of July and the first part of August.

One of the twenty-eight asterisms or constellations that the sun passes through during the course of a year, which are “lunar mansions” in the plane of the sky. It is composed of three star systems: Gamma Cancri, Delta Cancri, and Theta Cancri. In the Western zodiac it is equivalent to the very end of Cancer and nearly half of Leo‍—in other words, the end of July and the first part of August.

A lunar mansion in the east.

The name of a constellation.

The name of a lunar asterism.

The name of a lunar asterism or nakṣatra.

The eighth of the twenty-seven constellations, or nakṣatras, in Vedic astrology. Vedic astrology divides the day into thirty periods of forty-eight minutes called muhūrtas; Puṣya is the period that corresponds to 8:24 to 9:12 p.m.

A particularly auspicious time that is marked by the moon passing through the constellation puṣya.