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[Full title: The Lore of the Constellations (12) The Citra (Virginis Spica)]

The Citra is the twelfth constellation consisting of (131) Possibly because these people occupy themselves mainly with their hands. (132) "New Light on the Vedic God - Savitr", ABORI XX, pp. 293-316.

one star of a charming bluish tinge. The Satapatha Brahmana gives an interesting story regarding the derivation of the name Citra. It states that once upon a time there was a competition between the Gods and the Asuras. The latter planned to secure the heaven by performing a sacrifice. They began to build the altar. Indra thought that if they completed the sacrifice they would overcome the Gods. Hence he took the form of a Brahmana and, with a brick in his hand, went to them. He got their permission to add the brick when the altar was being built. When the sacrifice was about to start, he demanded his brick back. He took it away and cast it into the sky. Thereby the altar and consequently the sacrifice perished. bricks into vairas. The Gods assembled and said, "As we Indra killed the Asuras by turning the have killed the enemies we have become outstanding (citram)". Hence the brick that was cast into the sky by Indra and which had assumed the form of a star came to be called by the name Citra 134. (133) II.1.2.13. (134) Taittiriya Brahmana I.1.2.4-6 tells a similar story. It gives the name of the demons as Kalakanjas. When Indra removed his brick called Citra, the demons, who were rising to the heaven, fell down. They became spiders (who try to ascend the heaven by spinning out webs). Two demons rose up into the heaven. They became the two dogs (Canis Major and Canis Minor). The Brahmana further says that a person who has an enemy should enkindle the sacred fire under the Citra. Thereby he overcomes the enemy and becomes powerful and lustrous.

341 The Citra belongs to the seer Gautama and is presided 135. over by Tvastr protects the beings and does great deeds. Tvastr is the wise creator of the earth, Tvastr and the beautiful Citra are prayed for the success in activities (1.39.2). The domesticated animals and the beasts are said to be under the control of the Citra (1.7.4). The Brhatsamhita by Varahamihira (15.12) states that ornaments, jewels, unguents, perfume-makers, musicians, mathematicians, weavers, lancers and good corns are under the sway of this asterism. It is said that the disease contracted under the Citra lasts for ten nights (1.33.11). A king should make many plans under this constellation and carry them out before the Svati starts pouring rain (1.10.1). One should eat many a kind of food and proceed in the southern direction to return successful (1.28.2). A person desirous of a wife should be adorned with variegated garlands and all perfumes and should be bathed under the Citra. Thereby he will soon get a beloved (1.44.2) A Sudra woman well decorated with flowers and perfumes should be given away under this constellation, whereby a person is said to attain an eternal place (1.49.2). The Moon on his path across the sky comes quite close to the Citra as he does to the Rohini. That the union of the Moon with the charming Citra has an indescribable beauty is (135) Taittiriya Samhita IV.4.10 and Taittiriya Brahmana I.5.1.3 mention Indra as the deity of the Citra.

342 mentioned by Kalidasa when he compares King Dilipa and his queen Sudaksina who were together proceeding in a chariot towards the asrama of Vasistha 136 The Svati (a Bootis, Arcturus) 137