Ashtaka Varga

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Two Ways of Using AshtakaVarga
How To Interpret More Rekhaas in Trika Houses
Bindu as Inauspicious and Rekh As Auspicious in BPHS
Gochara versus AshtakaVarga
Two Ways of Using AshtakaVarga
I use AV in two ways. First method is ORGANIC, i.e., using all major tools of Vedic
Astrology as a composite whole, interplaying with each other, which I am explaining
below. it is time consuming, and I use AV only when the standard method does not give a
clear-cut result (this is what BPHS says) and is doubtful due to various contradictory
conclusions from various charts.
The second method is same as used by those who use AV as standalone tool, but I never
use it for general chart reading. I use it for making a long term graph through my
software, ranging from 24 days including all planets and lagna, to many years when lagna
and fast moving planets are left out. Three such graphs are available at my website which
were mentioned here in JR before the recent Indian elections :
http://vedicastrology.wikidot.com/congress-vs-bjp-2014
These long term graphs help in finding out good and bad durations, and when we use
other standard tools of Vedic Astrology for these desired durations the predictions
become more reliable (This is the ORGANIC or COMPREHENSIVE method). This is
what BPHS also states. Used in isolation as standalone tool, AV seldom works correctly.
In this method, there are two variants : DAC and SC. DAC (Dashaa Aarambha Chakra) is
impractical now because it requires birthtime accuracy of a high degree. The only other
alternative left to us is SC (Sudarshana Chakra) which should use VPC (Varsha Pravesha
Chakra) of two types, normal (so-calledTajik without touching that book) type and SC
type dashaas. Birthchart (SC and all divisionals) gives results for the whole life and not
for a particular dahsaa period. For a particular dashaa period, we should make either
DAC as BPHS clearly states twice, or SC with combination of SC-dashaa, VPC and
Vimshottari (if the result is still uncertain, then AV is to be used). Now comes the answer
to your query with example :
My Mercury MD is running in birthchart (SC). Overall results coming from Mercury
should be judged from three charts constituting SC (LK, SK, CK, i.e. Lagna Kundali,
Surya Kundali, Chandra Kundali). Vimshottari timings of Mercury's MD should be
judged from this overall result of SC. My Mercury sits in 5H as 9L plus 12L in a friendly
sign owned by yoga giver Saturn (owner of kendra and trikona). Hence, Mercury is a
benefic. But it has zero aspect on 4H in LK (Lagna Kundali or main birthchart). But SK
and CK are benefics for 4H, with some problems too.
During Mercury's MD I had to sell one of my houses at a very low price, and after two
years I sold another house at a very high price. Both houses were sold during Venus AD.
Here too, there was some maleficence on 4H from Venus but a slightly more beneficence.
First house was sold in Venus PD and second house in Venus PD.
Hence, merely Vimshottari cannot explain these two events which were very important
for me because it is my major source of livlihood since I do not ask for fees for my astro
and other works.

VPC's annual and monthly charts explained these two events with some more clarity. I
pay special weightage to Vimshottari planets in VPCs. But still some doubts remained.
AV removed the remaining doubts : at the time of selling my first house, Vimshottari
Merc-MD was running and AV had gochara Mercury in 11H of income from natal
Mercury having 8 benefic Rekhaas of AV, which is maximum possible beneficence AV
can give. But AD planet Venus was in 12H which was 4L + 9L (yoga giver but in 12H),
hence not much harmful.
AD planet Venus-AV had gochara Venus in 2H of wealth from natal Venus, but with only
3 rekhaas out of maximum possible 8 and 6L+9L, but 4H was ruled by yoga giver Jupiter
which was 4L. Hence, I could not get full price but whatever I got saved me from a grave
crisis due to communists planning to finish me (Venus was 6L in BAV) , and saved my
college too.
Chart for the time (including relevant divisionals) when houses were sold were also
important but only for fixing precise timings.
When I sold another house, gochara Mercury was in 2H from natal Merc but with only 4
rekhas, while 4H from natal Merc had svagrihi Venus with 5 rekhas, hence 4H was highly
benefic in BAV of Merc.
And gochara Venus was in 6H from natal Venus but in own sign, and MD planet Merc
was in 4H from gochara Venus.
Thus, remaining uncertainties of birthchart's Vimshottari and VPC were removed by AV.
In both cases of house selling, SC Dashaas were respectively of 2H of wealth and of 5H
respectively, both benefics for wealth.
Thus, combining AV with all major tools of traditional Vedic Astrology, we get more
definitive results. I have shown here only D1 analysis. Similar analysis should be made of
other relevant divisionals, e.g., D-2 (12-house D-2 ; Sun and Moon of D2 are deities and
not houses).
In my own case I use DAC (Dashaa Arambha Chakra) which took me nearly one month
of hard work to make, because DAC needs birth time accuracy of less than 0.001 seconds
and is possible only if original error is less than 1 or 2 minutes at most. If DAC can be
made, there is no need of SC and AV. This is what BPHS states. But making DAC is now
a Herculean task. Earlier, it was comparatively easier because sootikaa-griha data and
garbhaadhaan details were maintained and Jyotishis as well as clients were more pious
and therefore helped by the powers above.
How To Interpret More Rekhaas in Trika Houses
"Suppose 8th from Saturn is having more rekhas, will it be happy or unhappy for
accidents? Or will more auspicious Rekhaas in 12H bring more misfortune by means of
enhancing expenses ?"
This question is in the context of AV. In the AV-phalaadhyaaya of BPHS, four verses (3841) answer his question. These verses say that 8H from Saturn indicates death and
longevity This chapter clearly mentions in many verses that BAV is being talked of. It
means the four verses about Shani talk of Shani-BAV. Hence, when verse-38 speaks of
8H from Shani's place, we have to view the 8th house from gochara Shani, because the
verse says "Shanaishchara-aashrit-sthaana-ashtamam". In Shani's BAV, natal Shani
always remains fixed in the first house, hence there will be no need of using such words
had natal Shani been intended. The implication is that 8H from gochara Shani in Shani's
BAV indicates death and longevity. here is one example : Saturn is raaja yoga giver in my

chart, and on the best day in my life, it was Saturn's Vimshottari MD and in Shani-BAV
gochara-Saturn was in 4H from natal Shani, and 8H from gochara Shani (i.e., 11H from
natal Shani) had 8 rekhas which means 100% beneficence : on that day I got initiation
into ancient secret order by dint of blessings of my spiritual Guru Ji, because long
tapasyaa &c had brought fruits on that day (I do not want to disclose my personal affairs,
these things are forbidden to be declared publicly). But on that day, 8H from natal Shani
had only 2 rekhas. Hence, the verse implies 8H from gochara Shani and not 8H from
natal Shani. Vimshottari also helped. When Vimshottari opposes AV result, AV results do
not bear fruit. Therefore, we must combine the results of all charts. I had serious mrityuyoga then which I was trying to avert through propitiation, but the results were better than
I expected.
I have described above only the correlation of only Vimshottari's MD-planet Saturn with
its BAV on that date, but all the five levels of Vimshottari planets had very high rekhaas
in significant houses in their respective BAV charts on that date. Here is a summary : AD
was of Sun, and in Sun's BAV 12H from gochara-Sun had 7 rekhas (moksha). PD was of
Rahu and gochara-Rahu was in a sign having 7 rekhas and 12H from it also had 7 rekhas,
8H from it had 7 rekhaas. SD was of Venus and in its BAV, 9H of fortune had 7 rekhas.
PrD was of Moon and in its BAV 3H from gochara Moon had 8 rekhas, 7H had 7 rekhas,
etc. On that date, individual rekhas of planets had maximum rekhas for those planets
whose Vimshottari was running.
Hence, more rekhas in 8H from Shani indicate averting death and accidents and increase
in longevity. It is wrong to suppose that any single planet is related to accidents.
Bindu as Inauspicious and Rekh As Auspicious in BPHS
-- 14
It means : "Karan is called Bindu and Sthna is called Rekh . Auspicious and
inauspicious fruits should be known from sthaana (rekhaa) and karana (dots)
respectively."
Exactly same thing is expressed in Santhanam's version in different wording :
- SS
Santhanam translated it exactly as I have given above.
No version of BPHS says bindu is auspicious. there are some mediaeval texts which give
inverted meanins : dot as auspicious and rekha as inauspicious.
The most extensive writings of Devarshi Narada are available in Narada Purana which
explains all six Vedaangas, including all three skandhas (branches) of Jyotisha. Its Horaa
part is perfectly in harmony with BPHS, though not as exhaustive as BPHS. There,
rekhaa is auspicious and bindu is inauspicious, as in all ancient texts like BPHS and nadi
granthas. The siddhaanta skandha of Narada Purana is 100% replica of Suryasiddhanta.
This Puraana can be freely downloaded from Maharshi Institute of Management's
website, but its commentary is out of print. Summarised Hindi commentary is available
from Gitapress (Gorakhpur), in which Jyotisha portion has been translated exhaustively
(i.e., not summarised).
In AV analysis, I have to add one thing :
While rekhas Ilines) and bindus (dots) are to be determines with reference to rasis in
gochara as well as in birthchart, the bhaavachalita chart at the time of event, i.e., gochara,
is of great importance. Here is one example :

At the time of my mother's death due to an accident when I was 14 years, my Vimshottari
had Jupiter's MD.
Bhaavachalita chart of that time with lagna as first house had highly malefic Jupiter as 4L
+ 7L (kendraadhipati dosha) sitting in 6H.
Jupiter's BAV with natal Jupiter as lagna had gochara Jupiter in 3H which is malefic, and
this 3H had only 3 rekhas which is inauspicious.
In BAV of Jupiter, 4H from Jupiter had 4 rekhs which is almost normal (1-4 rekhs are
inauspicious, and 5-8 rekhs are auspicious in increasing order). But in 4H from Jupiter,
debilitated (neecha) Ketu was sitting, while neecha Moon and neecha Rahu were sitting
in opposite 10H from Jupiter and were aspecting 4H, and 4L Venus was also neecha.
There were five neecha planets at that time.
D-1 and its Vimshottari, D-12 and its Vimshottari, VPC, AV, gochara bhvachalita, etc all
were highly malefic at the moment of my mother's death. When all major pointers are
malefic (or all are benefic) for some particular house, event related to that house becomes
a certainty. Problem arises for weak events for which various charts give conflicting
results and we have to compare their strengths which is highly troublesome and requires
much experience.
Gochara versus AshtakaVarga
In popular parlance, Gochara is the placement of current planets with respect to natal
Moon. There is a wrong conception that Lunar Gochara is distinct from
AshtakaVarga. Some novices are spreading the idea that Gochara is more important than
and unrelated to AshtakaVarga, because Gochara is more used than AshtakaVarga by
astrologers. Such persons have never tried to compare Gochara with respect to
AshtakaVarga. Take the good/bad results of eight planets+lagna in eight BAV (Bhinna
Ashtaka Varga) in BPHS (Brihat Parshara Hor Shstra) with respect to natal Moon in
each BAV, and denote the bad results with "0" and good results with "1" as in the
following table, followed with Lunar Gochara results in Hindi taken from the book
"Bhartiya Jyotish Ka Vaigyanic Vivechan" ( , page
223) on which the degree of D.Litt (Vidyaa-vaachaspati ) was awarded by
KSD Sanskrit University in 1981. This table shows that the so-called Lunar Gochara is
actually taken from Ashtaka-Varga. Out of the 12 houses for each of the seven planets
which make up 84 cells in this table, only one cell shows mismatch between Lunar
Gochar and AshtakaVarga : ninth house under Moon, which should be auspicious but
the book shows a misprint "rog" () which has been highlighted in red. Lagna-BAV
has no counterpart in Lunar Gochara, while Rahu-Ketu have no counterpart in Lunar
Gochara but they have been shown in this table. Conclusion :
The Ashtaka Varga results for Natal Moon in seven BAV (Bhinna Ashtaka Varga)
charts are exactly the same as Lunar Gochara.
AshtakaVarga Results Compared To Gochara Of Natal Moon
Houses Sun
Moon
Mars
Mercury
Jupiter
0-
1-
0-
0-
0-
1
0-
0-
0-
1-
1-
2
1-
1-
1-
0-
0-
3
0-
0-
0-
1-
0-
4
0-
0-
0-
0-
1-
5

6
7
8
9
10
11
12

1-
0-
0-
0-
1-
1-
0-

1-
1-
0-
1-
1-
1-
0-

1-
0-
0-
0-
0-
1-
0-

1-
0-
1-
0-
1-
1-
0-

0-
1-
0-
1-
0-
1-
0-

The Ashtaka Varga results for Natal Moon in seven

BAV (Bhinna Ashtaka Varga) charts are exactly the
same as Lunar Gochara.
AshtakaVarga Results Compared To Gochara Of Natal Moon
Houses
Sun
Moon
Mars
Mercury Jupiter
Venus
Saturn
1
0-Sthanhani 1-stroke
0-Antasok 0-Dnhani 0-harm
1-Good 0-cut
112
0-fear
0-Dnhani 0-fear
1-profit
0 loss
monetized
monetized
13
1-Money
1-jay
1-jay
0-fear
0-Sthitinas
1-profit
Dnvriddhi
0010104
0-fear
Defamation
dislocation enrichment Bndhuksht happiness Struvriddhi
05
0-poverty
0-fever
0-Striklh 1-Putrsuk 1-Putrsuk 0-cut
mourning
01 victory
06
1-victory
1-health
1-victory Damadon
1-profit
in strife
suffering
protest
1007
0-Tour
0-Striklh
1-trip
0-Striksht
happiness
resistance
suffering
08
0-suffering 0-sorrow 0-fever
1-Putrsuk
1-property 0-Struby
Margclesh
00109
1 disease 0-poverty
1-Good
Dharmhani
disturbance
happiness Dharmhani
11010
10
0-Dnksht
0-revenge
achievement expediency Karyanash happiness
infighting
11111
1-profit
1-profit
1-Putrsuk 1-Fear
enrichment happiness
Ayuvriddhi
12
0-suffering 0 charges 0-Mannash 0-reduction 0-sorrow 1-Arthlab 0 loss

Lagna Rahu
0
Trouble
0

Wealth

Narujy

Struvriddh

Mourning

Wealth

Loss

Disease

Sin

Animosity

Mourning

Mourning