{"id":3809,"date":"2012-03-01T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:13:00","slug":"vasishta-and-arundhathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Vasishta and Arundhathi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;\">\n<li style=\"background-color: #edeff4; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-top: 5px;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-12b-UQtH10g\/T0-SBTPA8aI\/AAAAAAAACQs\/u01Qa-TC_1g\/s1600\/vasarundhathi.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"181\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-12b-UQtH10g\/T0-SBTPA8aI\/AAAAAAAACQs\/u01Qa-TC_1g\/s320\/vasarundhathi.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"zoom: 1;\">\n<div data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:33}\" style=\"display: table-cell; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 10000px;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"zoom: 1;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Mizar and Alcor in Western Astronomy and in Indian Astronomy Vasistha and his<br \/>\nconsort Arundhathi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Amongst Hindus, there is a custom of showing the<br \/>\nbride the star Arundhathi to highlight chastity. Also Polaris or Dhruva to show<br \/>\nsteadfastness. Vasistha and Arundhathi are just 11 minutes apart and have nearly<br \/>\nidentical proper motion. They both are in Ursa Major or the constellation of the<br \/>\nSapta Rishies.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mizar and Alcor in Western Astronomy and in Indian Astronomy Vasistha and his consort Arundhathi. &nbsp;Amongst Hindus, there is a custom of showing the bride the star Arundhathi to highlight chastity. Also Polaris or Dhruva to show steadfastness. Vasistha and Arundhathi are just 11 minutes apart and have nearly identical proper motion. They both &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vasishta and Arundhathi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}