Indian or Hindu Zodiac
Traditional Hindu astrology has a sidereal coordinate zodiac system with twelve signs. The names of the Hindu zodiacal signs, or ra-s’is, are similar to Graeco-Babylonian signs:
1. mes.a “ram” (Aries)
2. vr.s.abha “bull” (Taurus)
3. mithuna “a pair” (Gemini)
4. karka “crab” (Cancer)
5. sim.ha “lion” (Leo)
6. kanya- “maiden” (Virgo)
7. tula, from tula- “balance” (Libra)
8. vrushchik “scorpion” (Scorpius), also kaurpi, loaned from the Greek
9. ka-rmuka, ca-pa, dhanus “bow, arc”, ca-pin “armed with a bow” (Sagittarius)
10. en.a, mr.ga “antelope”, also makara “sea-monster” (Capricornus)
11. kumbha “pitcher, water-pot” (Aquarius)
12. matsya “fish”, also jhas.a, timi, mi-na after specific kinds of fish (Pisces)
This “Hindu zodiac” (adhvan, ra-s’i) thus has similarities to Greek zodiac. The Graeco-Babylonian system of twelve signs overlays the native Hindu system of nine grahas or planets.