Ashtakavarga calculator
AI dhoop Ashtakavarga is a way of counting. Each of the seven grahas gives or withholds one point (a bindu) to every sign, depending on where the other six grahas and your rising sign (lagna) stand in your chart. Add the seven columns and you get 12 numbers, one per sign, that always total 337. The page shows them, says what the book calls each band, and checks them against where the grahas are in the sky today.
Your ashtakavarga
Points by sign
Each bar is one sign's total. The thin lines mark 25 and 30 points. Bands: Strong is more than 30, Medium is 25 to 30, Needs care is under 25.
Graha by graha
The seven columns that add up to each sign's total. Su Sun · Mo Moon · Ma Mars · Me Mercury · Ju Jupiter · Ve Venus · Sa Saturn.
| Sign | Su | Mo | Ma | Me | Ju | Ve | Sa | Total |
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Where the grahas are now
Here is where each graha stands in the sky today, and what your chart counts in that sign. It is a way to see which passages get more support. It does not say what will happen.
How to read this
- Each sign has a total. The average is 28, because 337 points are shared between 12 signs.
- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (ch. 72) gives three bands for a sign: more than 30 points is strong, 25 to 30 is medium, and under 25 needs care. I show the book's bands as they are.
- A sign with a high count is read as one where a graha passing through finds more support. A sign with a low count is read as one that asks for more attention or patience. That is a way to plan, not a verdict.
- Some books read the 6th, 8th and 12th houses the other way round, so that a low count there is welcome. I use the same bands for every sign, and I do not apply that exception.
- The graha table breaks each total into its seven parts. A graha's own count in a sign is out of 8.
Lahiri (Drik Panchang reading), whole sign houses, mean node
Questions
What is ashtakavarga?
It is a points system from classical Vedic astrology. Seven grahas each give a point or no point to every sign, based on the placements in your chart. The totals show which signs get more support and which get less. It is a count made from your chart, not a prediction.
Why do the totals always add up to 337?
The rule tables are fixed. Each graha gives out the same number of points in any chart: 48 for the Sun, 49 for the Moon, 39 for Mars, 54 for Mercury, 56 for Jupiter, 52 for Venus and 39 for Saturn. They only land in different signs for different people. The sum, 337, is a check that the tables are right.
Why does it need my exact birth time?
Your rising sign is the eighth voice in the count, next to the seven grahas. If the time is off enough to change the rising sign, the numbers change. If you only know the part of the day, the page cannot give you a fair answer.
What do strong, medium and needs care mean?
They are the book's bands for the total of a sign: more than 30 is strong, 25 to 30 is medium, under 25 needs care. The words describe the count. A sign that needs care is a sign to go gently in, not a sign to fear.
Which method does this use?
It uses the Lahiri ayanamsa, with the contributor tables of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. It does not apply the reductions (trikona and ekadhipatya shodhana) that some books add.
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