Naadi (Nadi) has 4 different meanings in Sanskrit literature:
1) Nadi = Swara or Breathe movement. A human being inhales
and exhales on an average of 21,600 times a day.
E.g. Ida (Chandra), Pingala (Surya) and Sushumna nadis.
2) Nadi = "Pulses" used in Ayurvedic system, to
find kind of disease the patient is suffering by observing throbbing's of Pulses
as felt on Patients wrist.
3) Nadi use in Marriage alliance for Compatibility. Adya -
Madhya - Antya .
4) Nadi in Astrology is a small unit of Arc of the Zodiac to
rise in the east as ascendant.
There are more than 20 Nadi granthas (Samhithas) prevalent in
South India in the form of old Palm-leaf bundles in Sanskrit language.
Nadiamsa is 150th part of a Raasi or one-fifth (12 minutes)
of a degree. Entire space of 360 degrees of Zodiac is divided into 1800
Nadiamsas.
Nadiamsa count is different for
a) Movable signs - regular order from 1 to 150.
b) Immovable (Fixed) signs - the count is reverse i.e from
150 to 1.
c) Common signs - The count is firstly from 76 to 150 and
then from 1 to 75.
List starts with Vasudha, Vaishnavi , Braahmi,... etc..
Nadiamsas.
