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Prediting through
Karakamsha
&
Jaimini’s
Mandook Dasha

K.N. RAO

Vani Graphics
Lucknow, India
Predicting through
Karakamsha
and
Jaimini’s Mandook Dasha

Copyright © K. Gautam Rao

First Published : September 1995

Second edition : 1997

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 Acknowledgements
and Thanks
Thanks to my colleagues in the teaching faculty of astrol-
ogy in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan for asking me to write
on Mandook Dasha.
To Shri K. Bhushan who read the manuscript in part and
remarked : how the Mandook Dasha could be calculated
was explained so lucidly. | will remember his remark, “/t
means that those who are writing on Jaimini do not know
the subject.”

Dedicated to,

Lynda Johnson,
Helega Stern
Robert Hand
Robert Schmidt
of USA whom | found receptive and open minded.
 Contents
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Prediting through Karakamsha & Jaimini’s Mandook Dasha

About the Author

This is the sixteenth book of K.N. Rao since 1989 and the twelfth
on astrology. In other books enough has been given about the author.
Here we are reproducing some excerpts of an interview with him from
the famous astrological journal of the USA, The Mountain
Astrologer of June 1995.
This coincided with Rao’s fourth visit to USA to teach astrology.
He is the honorary Dean of Instruction of the American Council of
Vedic Astrology. (not now) He was also invited to participate in the
meeting of elitist western astrologers connected with the Project
Hindsight in July, 1995 at West Virginia (near Washington D.C.) where
he gave a two hour talk on the dasha systems of Indian astrology.
This. was to help the project directors, Robert Hand and Robert
Schmidt, understand the dashas used by Greeks, which the Project
discovered recently. Here Rao gave demonstration of Indian system
of horoscope reading to top western astrologers, one of them being
the famous Roxana Muise who said after the reading, “the wall
between me and Vedic astrology has disappeared today.” Another
astrologer remarked that western astrologers could never do such
readings with events within the defined time frame.
Read the following excerpts from the Mountain Astrologer (June
1995) against the following background.
K.N. Rao is the founder and guiding light of the world’s largest
astrology school, which has over 500 students and 24 teachers and
is located in New Delhi, India. Retired from a top level in government
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service in India, Mr. Rao now devotes all of his time to astrology —
with mastertul results. Careful not to frighten his client nor plant seeds
of negativity, his assessment of a chart is seemingly effortless as he
offers stunningly specitic details of the past and present, and hope
for the future. Although you wonder if he’s psychic, his teaching of
the advanced techniques of prediction belies his thorough knowledge
of Vedic astrology and the precision with which he approaches each
chart analysis. Since his first invitation to the United States in the fall
of 1993, he has written at least five books on
Vedic astrology, and has overseen or edited five or six other books
written by teachers and advanced students at his school — all in a
generous offering of Vedic astrology to interested students in the
United States.
| found his to be characteristically outspoken with strong opinions,
but with a refreshing openness to new ideas and a willingness to test
everything. He relies on results, exhorting his students to collect
hundreds of charts — with carefully timed sequences of major life
events — fo test each ancient “astrological law” before applying it in
practice. He is interested in exploring how the Vedic interpretations
need to be adjusted for people in the United States, as he has noticed
many differences, some of which he speaks of here. He asks us fo
collect charts with caretully timed events and reminds us that we must
work together, because there is too much for any one person to
explore.
This interview was conducted at the 3rd Annual Symposium for
Vedic Astrology, held in San Rafael, CA in November 1994.
The Mountain Astrologer (TMA) : Mr. Rao, would you start by
telling us how you became interested in astrology?
KNR: At the age of 11 | was down with typhoid. In those days (early
1940s) there was no hope of a child surviving, particularly in a place
like India. |was nearly given up as dead. How | survived was almost
a miracle, and my recovery almosta rebirth. |was six months without
food, on a liquid diet, convalescing in bed after being in the hospital.
My mother put a picture of the goddess Saraswati before me, and
everyday she taught me numerology, palmistry, and astrology. My
mother was a very great astrologer, the greatest astrologer | have
known in my life. And in certain areas she was absolutely
unparalleled, such as prashna (horary) and female horoscopy. She
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had a very original, dazzling mind, always looking at everything in

avery modern way, but she was a pure orthodox Brahmin from South
India.
My father was against astrology. | don’t have to go to any scientist
or critic to know the arguments against astrology. My father had two
very strong reasons. He was a famous journalist or his time. The first
Prime Minister of India had a newspaper and my father was the
founding editor. At that time the independence movement was going
on and my father used to say, “When we have decided to jump into
fire, why do you have to ask any question about our future?” Mahatma
Gandhi never consulted an astrologer. No revolutionary ever
consulted an astrologer, because they knew freedom fighters never
bothered with astrology. My father was a freedom fighter. The second
objection of his was that astrology turned people into fatalists. Indians
believe in fate very easily suppose the astrologer is a fraud, which
most of the astrologers are. The majority of astrologers in India are
frauds.

Are they intentionally frauds?

Yes. They have very little knowledge. They exploit you, sometimes
by finding out your background beforehand. They open the horoscope
and begin to tell you something that they had previously collected.
Some Indian women can be frightened very easily and made to spend
money. When men are in trouble they prescribe gemstones for them,
because the astrologers usually have some linkup with the jewelers
from whom they get a commission. This is quite common in India.
The Indian tradition of astrology originally was learned in the
house of a guru, where a boy spent 10, 15, 20 years being
properly trained spiritually and astrologically. Then the boy had the
choice of doing the priestly work as an astrologer, either by
returning to the world to be a householder or by becoming a
brahmachari (renunciate) and remaining celibate for the rest of his
life. Over a period of time the tradition was destroyed, so that 500
years ago after the Moghul invasions, astrology became a family
tradition where the father passed it on to the children. The teachings
never went outside the home and were kept as great secrets. Even
though it was limited to family tradition, it spawned excellent
astrologers, because the family had nothing else to do. If the father
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was brilliant, the sons had to follow in the astrological knowledge

and the traditions.
But after the advent of British rule in India in the 17th century,
and particularly in the last century, Brahmins started accepting
government jobs for the first time, whereas during the entire Moghul
period, they had boycotted jobs. Because of their educational
background, they got into high positions as engineers, doctors, and
top government servants. | am a Brahmin. If | had taken to the
traditional occupation of a Brahmin, | should have been conducting
pujas (prayer ceremonies).
Cb aH edn
Like a priest?
Like a priest. But instead, | got an English education in literature and
taught as a lecturer. | competed, with 20,000 people in the all-India
examination for only 140 government jobs, which | got and had from
January 1957 until | retired in 1990. So | did not have to depend
on astrology as a source of living. That is primary. That fact you have
to remember.

Is it difficult to make a living in India as an honest

astrologer?
Yes. Earlier it was not so difficult, because if you went to an astrologer,
you never went empty-handed. The astrologer never demanded any
fees, but you felt happy, and you gave him maybe $5, maybe $500,
maybe $5,000.

Astrologers were taken care of?

And the finest among them were employed by the princely states.
In 1947 we had more than 500 princely states. Otherwise, the
‘common society looked after them well. For instance, last year when
| was here in the United States, an Indian invited me to his house
in Washington. | looked at his horoscope and told him that he was
an engineer with management qualification, and that he was now
employed in a very big international contract. He was surprised. It
was just five or ten minutes, but | told him something meaningful.
His wife prepared a very good meal for me, and as | was leaving,
he said, “You must take something.” | said, “I don’t want it.” But he
said, “I will give you $1,000. | came from India. | know of this
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tradition. You come here to the U.S. You need money. You are not
taking money for your work, so please take it.”
So fixing a fee, fixing a time, fixing an hour, or making an
appointment is unknown. Generally the Indian tradition is as | practice
it. |get up early in the morning and do my puja. If sunrise is at 6:00,
than at 6:30 I'll sit down in my house, | will not leave. Anyone who
wants to come and consult me will come. It's first come, first come,
first serve. Suppose it goes on from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m., and one,
two, three, four, five, or six people come. I'll rest awhile, do another
puja, and then at 2:00, they'll start coming again for another four
hours. Then after sunset, I’ll not do any astrology, but do my puja,
and read scriptures.

So it is practiced as a sacred art...

Yes. A sacred tradition.
What are the functions of the puja that are done by the astrologers?
They serve as kind of spiritual practice. Also, the pujas are necessary
to hear the planets tell their story. The planets speak in inaudible tones.
Regular spiritual practice helps you to listen to those.

So you're saying it’s necessary to

develop the intuition
An astrologer should have all the right qualifications. He should be
technically proficient, able to cast the horoscope without being
dependent on the computer. He must know how to cast a horoscope
and do all of the predictive work by hand so that he can cross-check
the computer’s work. The other very important reason is that his
astrological intuition will not develop nearly as well if he is ignorant
of the calculations. It is while | am casting the horoscope that the
predictions begin to strike me.
He should work hard to discover the meaning of the text he is
reading: the literal meaning, the implied meaning, and the inner
hidden meaning. For instance, a particular sutra (a verse in a
scripture) in Jaimini (a system of astrology) says, if such and such
a combination is there, this person will be able to “overcome the
distractions of his spiritual life.” When | was studying this, | typed out
ten pages of analysis of this passage, and even then | could not
understand the meaning of these four words — there is so much
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meaning. What does it mean, “He will overcome the distraction of

his spiritual life”? One, it means he will have a spiritual life. Two,
he will have distractions. Three, he will have to fight hard with those
distractions. And four, finally he will overcome them.
And then there is the matter of timing. When will that spiritual
life begin? When will the distractions commence? What will be the
nature of them, and how and when will they be overcome? | saw
it in so many horoscopes, including my own. | was a bachelor, highly
eligible by Indian standards because of my big government job.
Traditional people were after me to marry into their families. | avoided
it, but then when | became a government officer, the working girls
in the office were after me, and | also avoided that. But what agony
it was and how | fought my sex torments - to remain a celibate in
the midst of a society where there are so many women moving
towards you.

At what age did you make the decision to become a

brahmachari?
At the age of 28. | had been analyzing my life, seriously searching,
reading the sutras. And | said, “My God, his one Sutra reveals so
much.” The simple translations which you read in English are of no
use — they contain the literal meaning only. A sutra, which means
a thread, must be unraveled and unraveled. The whole thing
becomes so large. This is where the requirement of intellectual
excellence becomes so important. In the modern context, it means
being able to weight the pros and cons of an issue properly.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND

EDITION

Since the writing of the first edition, the method given in

this book has been tried successfully by many students who
felt very happy but did say that to get horoscopes to which
this dasha applied was difficult since their data bank was
not large enough for them to keep trying it on a number of
horoscopes.
| told them not to commit the mistake of not collecting
many more horoscopes and be prepared for the intricacies
of other special and specific dashas of Jaimini.

Even now,though | am satisfied with my original research

in Jaimini, | keep applying this dasha to horoscopes and
use it for predictions, | have decided to share with readers
more of my findings with some other dashas of Jaimini.

To try different dashas the mental discipline that is neces-

sary is what one has to keep developing.

In this edition many exercises have been given at the end

which readers should treat as puzzles.
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Inroduction
The reception given to my book Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara
Dashawas very heart-warming as both in India and in the USA friends
told me that they got results accurately and very fast compared to
the Vimshottari in which searching specific events was more difficult.

In the meantime the new batch of research students of July 1995

numbering over 20 decided to opt for researches in Jaimini astrology
in preference to any other branch. They had read my’book for their
second year examination in astrology and felt confident that they could
handle Jaimini’s dashas well and enthusiastically.
There must be revival of this great branch of astrology for
astrology to be the most effective science of counselling along specefic
lines and in specefic areas.
In this book which | have called Predicting through Karakamsha
and Jaimini’s Mandook Dasha| have also dealt with some confusions
in Jaimini astrology without knowing which, students cannot proceed
along scientific lines. It must be remembered that while no disrespect
is meant to other writers, it is necessary to know that the English
translation ofJaimini Sutras by B. Suryanarayana Rao was helpful only
in knowing about this branch of astrology as he created an awareness
about it. But he was no researcher and produced no research at all
in any branch of astrology. The result was that the confusion his
translation created had to be understood. That book should be read
with a sense of discrimination as it will be clear he had no illustrative
examples with him to lift the fog of uncertainty that still covers many
branches of Indian astrology, particularly Jaimini astrology.
As in the earlier book, so too here, all that | am claiming
is that it is an original and fundamental research which

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| can present confidently after the tremendous success of

the earlier book of mine on Jaimini.
No one should be treated as a final authority on Jaimini. Yet
unless it is discussed along some tested lines, as | always do, the
secrets of this branch of astrology, the greatest in the world, will
remain hidden. It is with that intention that this book has being written.
Readers are requested not to treat it as the final product of
research but as a piece on which they can rely for their predictions
and general horoscope reading.

F 291 Saraswati Kunj, — K.N, Rao

Patparganj,
I.P Estate Extension,
Delhi 110092

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SECTION I

1
What is Karakamsha?

How is Karakamsha in Jaimini to be calculated? Is it the entire

Navamsha of all karakas as shown in the Navamsha horoscope or
is it only the Navamsha position of the Atmakaraka shown as a
separate point in the birth horoscope?
Some people take the Navamsha of the Atmakaraka put it in the
birth horoscope others put it in the Navamsha along with other
karakas.
South Indian astrologers show the karamamsha and in the
Navamsha while some north Indian astrologers show it as a point in
the birth horoscope. Some astrologers use two different terms,
Karakamshain the birth horoscope and when they use the Navamsha
horoscope for all Karakas of Jaimini, they call it Swamsha.
This distinction between Karakamsha and Swamsha seems to
have some definite meaning and use. A major research should be
done by Jaimini students to settle this controversy once and for all.
An attempt is being made first to show how this controversy arises.
In his book on Jaimini Dr B.V.Raman has given the entire
Navamsha to show how Karakamsha horoscope is prepared but has
given no example to show how it is used for predictive purposes. In
his book, Jaimini Sutram, PS. Sastri uses the birth horoscope and
sometimes the Navamsha to show how Karakamsha is to be used.
The confusion that exists between the Karakamsha and swamsha
horoscopes persists.
To arrive at some meaningful conclusion a theoretical discussion
is being done first.
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Results of Karakamsha
In B. Suryanarain Rao’s translation of Jaimini Sutras, a mere
translation of the sutras is given without any illustration. It does not
solve our problem. Yet some results as given in the book are
reproduced here first to show the confusion that gets created as a
result of a translation without illustration.
If any of the planets is in the Karakamsha the results will be:

Sun: Will be fond of public service and will be fond of political

activities.
Moon and Venus: \f the full Moon and Venus are in Karakamsha
the person will command great wealth and all comforts.
Mars: Will prepare medical mixtures and will bear arms. Will live
by professions involving preparations in or near fire.
Mercury: Will become a merchant, weaver or manufacturer of
clothes will be clever in preparing curios, will be well versed in social
and political matters.
Jupiter: Will be well versed in Vedic or religious rituals, will have
religious wisdom, will know the rules of sacrificial functions and will
have good knowledge in Vedanta.
Venus: Will become a great official, will become political personage,
will be fond of many women and will retain vitality and sexual passion
till the age of one hundred years.
Saturn: Will be famous in his line of work.

Notes
1. Itshould be clear that if the entire Navamsha of karakas are to
be used for Karakamsha then:
(a) Anyone who has the Sun as the atmakaraka will invariably have
the Sun in the Karakamsha also will become public servant and
will be in political activities. If such is the case we can look at all
horoscopes in which the Sun is the atmakaraka and draw a fast
conclusion that such persons will be public servants and will be
interested in political activities.
(b) Similarly those who have Venus at atmakaraka will have great
sexual virility till the age of one hundred years.
(c) All those who have the Saturn as the atmakaraka will be famous
in their own line of work.
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Can we jump to such conclusions merely on the basis of the

atmakaraka and its Navamsha position in the Navamsha chart? It is
obvious that it is a fallacious approach to any sound predictive
technique.
2. In his Jaimini Sutram, the results given by PS. Sastri are the
same but he takes the second house from Karakamsha to predict
the same results which is again not satisfactory.
3. Some astrologers use the Karakamsha in the birth horoscope
and call it Karakamsha and use the entire navamsa of all Jaimini
Karakas and call it Swamsha which seems to appeal to reason.
There is no hint given in any book available in the market How
the Karakamsha and Swamsha are distinguishable and which one is
to be used when for predictive purposes.

The Result of this Confusion

Therresult of this confusion can be seen if some charts are given and
the examination done.
In the chart first the full birth horoscope with degrees and karakas
(excluding Rahu) will be given. Then the Navamsha will be given.
The Karakamsha in both the birth horoscope and the Navamsha will
be marked and the results given in the translations of Jaimini sutras
in three books, Jaimini Sutras of B. Suryanarain Rao, PS. Sastri in
English and Dr. Suresh Chandra Mishra in Hindi (Ranjan Publications)
tested.

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7
Illustrations

ercury/
Saturn |Jupiter |Mars
Sun
Atmakaraka : Mercury
Lagna 10°34' Mars 5°49" Venus 19°06'
Sun 3°33' Mercury 23°50' Saturn 8°49"
Moon 9°20' Jupiter 10°30' Rahu 10°34'

Navamsha }

Jupiter |y,fenus
Ketu
*KL = Karakamsha Lagna
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Case One
In the birth horoscope Moon is in Karakamsha while in the Navamsha
it is Mercury. He is not a trader but he may become one later if the
profession is to be judged from the Navamsha.
He is an engineer which can be explained if the Karakamsha
in the birth horoscope is taken as Taurus and aspects of Mercury, Sun
and Mars both on the Karakamsha and the 10th house are taken
together. To this we can add Rahu in the 5th house aspected by Saturn
from Sagittarius for technical education.

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Jupiter
Sun feo (R) f-
Mercury] Venus

Atmakaraka:Sun
Lagna eyes Mars 12°25' Venus 22°14
Sun 26°21' Mercury 19°08! Saturn 23°10!
Moon 25°35. Jupiter (R) 5°40' Rahu 12°30'

l Lagna
Saturn |Moon Ry Lagna lp
Venus Siaturn
Sun Venus :
KL
Navamsha
Mars Jupiter
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Note: | always take the 5th house and the 5th lord for education
and not the 4th house and the 4th lord as taken by Dr. Raman in
his books.
In the birth horoscope in the Karakamsha you see Mars aspected by
Saturn and Venus and Jupiter which clearly explains why he is an
engineer, an agricultural engineer because Venus joins this combination.
In the fifth house we have the Moon with Ketu aspected by Rahu
showing the technical education again.

es
Case Three
Note: Saturn as atmakaraka must be in the Karakamsha in the
Navamsha according to some writers and must give him distinction in
his line. He was born in 1937 and now (in 1995) when he is 58 years
old he is neither distingished nor famous in his own line. He has nei-

KL Ketu
ay Lagna EG 7.
Sun Jupiter Mars
Saturn
Venus Male
Jan. 2, 1937
Mercury] 6:23 a.m, LMT

Atmakaraka: Saturn; Argala 3/11

Lagna 8°23' Mars 5:07" Venus 219!

Sun 18°12' Mercury 6°47' Saturn 24°29"
Moon 22°22! Jupiter 14°08' Rahu 0°32'
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ther any such ambition nor any visible opportunity to become distin-
guished.
From the birth horoscope Karakamsha (Taurus) receives the aspect
of Mars and Mercury while the tenth house has Saturn and Venus
aspected by Mars. The 5th house of education receives the aspects
of Sun, Rahu Ketu and Jupiter from the 8th house (which shows
underground activity).
If the entire Navamsha is taken, Saturn in the Karakamsha should
have made him distinguished in his line which has not happened so
far. The 10th house receives the aspects of Rahu Ketu and Venus
which could justify his being in a technical profession.
He is in a public sector undertaking of the government of India
which is a semi-government job. He is an engineer in the Oil and
Natural Gas Commission which explains the training he received in
underground work like drilling.
Note: Judge yourself which Karakamsha explains his career and
education pattern better, the Karakamsha in the birth horoscope or
in the Navamsha 2?

Case Four : A more intriguing example

Note: See the 5th house from Karakamsha with Mércury, Sun and
exalted Mars. Also note that Mercury is the 10th lord from the
Karakamsha as well as from the birth lagna. Then notice the aspect

Atmakaraka : Sun; Argala 3/11

Lagna 6°32' Mars 11°08" Venus 0°45'
Sun 29°24! Mercury 3°55' Saturn 15°25"
Moon 9°05' Jupiter 13°42' Rahu 13°59'
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Lagna
Jupiter
Lagna
Jupiter

of Jupiter on the 5th house and all those planets in that house.
In the birth horoscope Karakamsha has no planet but is aspected
by Saturn. He is distinghished in his line and has to visit many foreign
countries on big international assignments in a purely technical line.
Again the very good 5th house in the birth house from the
Karakamsha has given him a purely technical education and he is
an engineer. In the Parashari system, Rahu in the 5th house aspected
by Mars confirms his technical education.
Note: The composite approach | follow and teach by combining
both the Parashari and Jaimini systems gives very good results. In
Volume | of The Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions
many examples have been given of such studies.
In the Navamsha the Sun is in Karakamsha which explains why
he was a high placed government officer of the government of India.
But in the birth horoscope the association of the 10th lord, Mercury
from Karakamsha with the Sun and exalted Mars with the aspect of
Jupiter shows the very high position he had reached in his job, better.
Besides, after his retirement he has taken to intensive international
touring as a teacher which the aspect of Jupiter explains better. The
aspect of the Moon on Jupiter in the birth horoscope shows the nature
of teaching to be related to water. He teaches oceanography as the
aspects of Mars, Sun, Mercury and Ketu must show predominantly
technical nature of his job even after retirement, all these being on
Jupiter, the teacher.
Note: | have been giving him predictions since 1979 testing the
events and trends of his life, among other techniques taking
Karakamsha (Virgo) in the birth horoscope. More than ninety percent
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predictions have come out correct. | have therefore absolutely no

reason to take the Karakamsha of the Navamsha chart for my
predictions.
In all the four cases discussed so far it will be shown how the
events interpreted from Karakamsha lagna in the birth horoscope
explain the events better.

Education and Career Pattern in Chara dasha

The First Case

In the first case he ran the Chara dasha of Libra from 1970 to 1980
in which period he competed and got selected for an engineering
course. The 5th house and the 5th lord both being under total
Saturnine influence with the aspects of Mars and Sun and Mercury
gave him a technical education.
In the next chara dasha of Scorpio from 1980 to 1991 his 5th
lord Jupiter in the rashi of Mars and the Sth house being under the
total influence of Rahu and Ketu helped him complete his engineering
course and get a good job as the amatyakaraka, Venus is in the 10th
house from Scorpio.

The Second Case

He has been taking predictions from 1980 till date about his career
he being a son of a retired colleague in the Indian Audit and Accounts
Service from which | retired after thirty three years of government
service.
Between 1964 and 1971 when he was passing through the
period of Scorpio, the 5th lord, Jupiter in Cancer in a watery sign
was aspected by Mars, Sun and Mercury while the 5th house had
the aspects of Rahu, Ketu and the Moon, another watery planet. He
was selected for a course in agricultural engineering.
Between 1971 and 1983 in the dasha of Libra with Jupiter in
the 10th he got a very good job first as a teacher in an university
which Jupiter in the 10th does almost invariably. Later in the sub-
period of Sagittarius and Capricorn he changed jobs and joined a
semi-government job. From Capricorn Venus in the 10th is the
government job. It being with Saturn and with the aspect of Mars on
it, it had to be a purely technical and agricultural job.
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In 1981-82 when he reached the sub-period of Leo he got

married which is in harmony with what | have explained in my book
Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha.

The Third Case

| gave him very few predictions but all after he had completed his
education and had got well established in his job. Most of them being
of unpleasant nature | must refrain from discussing them here.

The Fourth Case

Between 1949 and 1956 when he was in the Leo period he
completed his engineering course. Examine the 5th house with Saturn
in it and the 5th lord, Jupiter receiving the aspects of Mars, Sun and
Mercury. But he also competed for the Indian administrative service
examination and got selected as an excellent 10th house with Jupiter
receiving the aspects of four planets including the Sun (government
service) had to do for him.
But he met me in 1979 for the first time when he an engineer
by training was already a well placed high government official. He
was then running the dasha of Aries from where the 2nd house has
Jupiter and aspects of four planets. | predicted very good foreign
income. According to the Parashari system the 12th lord, Mars exalted
in the 2nd house confirmed it. He has earned fifty times more in
four years since his retirement than he had had during his entire
service career of thirty two years.
Aries being the 8th house from his Karakamsha he did not get
the desired promotion in his government service from which he took
voluntary retirement.
Neither he nor his wife had believed in 1979 when | had
predicted fabulous foreign earnings for him. Now they have formed
a charitable trust with that income but the foreign income continues
to flow (even in 1995 after nearly eight years of his voluntary
retirement.)

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Atmakaraka; Moon

Lagna 25°23 Mars 14°25' Venus 4°23'

Sun 21°36! Mercury 17°06' Saturn 23°21'
Moon 29°24 Jupiter 25°34' Rahu too2'

fLagna
Saturn |Venus |Mercu
Ketu

- Navamsha

Jupiter Moon

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3
More Examples

The examples being given here include some in which | gave no

predictions but watched their careers and knew a good deal about
their life from my friends.

Case Five
In the birth horoscope Karakamsha is Virgo from where the 5th house
of education receives the aspects of Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and
exalted Moon and Ketu while the 5th lord Saturn too receives all these
aspects but in the rashi of Venus representing art.

Moon |Saturn
Sun
Atmakaraka: Moon; Argala from KL 4/10
Lagna 29°05' Mars 6°12' Venus 10°25'
Sun 16°46' Mercury 9°21" Saturn 12°52'
Moon 23°54 Jupiter (R) 15°51" Rahu 16°35'
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Interestingly Saturn in the 2nd house from the Karakamsha has

made her very distinguished as a classical dancer. Here PS. Sastri’s
version that Saturn in the 2nd house from Karakamsha makes one
distinguished applies better though in the birth horoscope and not in
the Navamsha as PS. Sastri would have it.
Now see the Navamsha.
In the Navamsha the 5th house receives the aspects of Venus Jupiter
and Ketu but the 5th lord Saturn in the 8th house from Karakamsha
aspected by Jupiter cannot explain her sky rocketing fame after a
perfectly flawless classical training in dancing.

Case Six

Mars bed,
Saturn |Moon

Ge
Lagna

Navamsha
Ketu
NN
:

Jupiter

ie
Lagna
Magna Jupiter (R) rf
Jupiter
a

September 2,
1950 phe
s

a R) j Aili Mer

Atmakaraka: Saturn
Lagna 2e°ee! Mars 21°00' Venus 27°31"
Sun 16°23' Mercury (R) 9°43' Saturn 27°48
Moon 17°44! Jupiter (R) ee°e2! Rahu SUF!
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The Karakamsha is Taurus from where three planets, Saturn, Sun

and Mercury aspected by Jupiter gave her very good education in
architecture.
But the aspect of the Moon on Karakamsha in Taurus, an artistic
house of Venus kindled her interest in dancing which she learnt with
the usual thoroughness she is known for. But neither fame nor
distinction has come her way though she does get enough publicity.
Contrast it with the earlier instance of the dancer who has been
a heart throb of millions in India and abroad.
From the Karakamsha in the Navamsha the 5th lord gets
debilitated and receives the aspect only of the Sun which does not
explain her brilliant academic career in architecture as is clear in
the birth horoscope.

Venus

was

|
Navamsha

ater SU
Rahu
Saturn
Jupiter Moon
KL

While in the birth horoscope the 10th house gets aspected by

the Moon from the Karakamsha,in the Navamsha Venus and
debilitated Saturn aspect the 10th house.

Case Seven
The Karakamsha in the birth horoscope is Sagittarius from where the
5th house receives the aspect of Jupiter (literature and history) Saturn
and the Sun. In the fifth house is the artistic planet the Moon. This
woman had a very good academic pursuit and also learnt classical
dance like the one discussed in case six. In accordance with the
traditional Indian family demands she never neglected her academic

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career but learnt dancing too very seriously. She never took to
dancing as a full time pursuit but instead got selected for a high job
in accounts service as exalted Mercury in the 10th house from
Karakamsha shows.
Note: Mercury in the 10th house from Karakamsha in the birth
horoscope explains it better. Again the Karakamsha in the birth
horoscope explains her career profile better.
This is the only case | have seen where the Navamsha explains her
career pattern thus:
1. Venus aspecting the 10th house together with Mercury gave
her a government job in accounts.
2. The Moon in the 10th house aspected by Saturn and Jupiter
from Sagittarius and Venus and Mercury from Pisces gave her
easy passage into both a high government job and a fine career
as a dancer.
3. But the defect here is that the 5th house and the 5th lord have
no artistic influence at all.
This cannot be explained unless deepeer techniques of Jaimini
astrology are applied.
It is necessary to emphasize here that the birth horoscope and
Navamsha give very substantially good picture of career pattern but
not fully. Some other Jaimini techniques in which my researches are
not yet complete have so far answered my need in happiest possible
ways.
A horoscope should be analysed first for its static promise by
understanding the apparent and implied meanings of planetary
patterns.
Then the dynamic configuration of the horoscope should be
analysed according to the dasha, general or specefic or both
preferably, to counsel and predict.
Unless these steps are followed, astrology will be described only
as a science of tendencies and possibilities as some writers do.
Astrology is the surest science to point out the the clear pattern of
human destiny and then see the brighter side of it for counselling
and predictions.

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Case Eight : Mrs. Rukmini Arundale

In the history of the revival of the great dance form known as the
Bharat Natyam, the name of Mrs. Rukmini Arundale will remain
immortal. She brought it out of the houses of dancing girls of ill repute
at a time when social stigma was attached to dancing in south India
of those conservative years. She had to suffer insults and humiliations
which is the fate of any Indian who does such a work and even earns
a good reputation in his line. Jealousy is a natural human instinct but
with Indians it is the first and the most enduring reaction to anyone’s
spreading fame.
Against this background, let us review briefly the parameters seen
in the case of dancers and test them here. It must-be remembered
that unlike the women dancers who can now dance without inhibition
and without any social stigma (on the other hand with great dignity
these days), Rukmini was a born crusader.
Her horoscope with Taurus as the ascendant has never been ip
doubt with the planetary position as given here. The birth time used
by different writers has been slightly different.

Mrs. Rukmini
Arundale
Feb. 29, 1904
12:10 p.m.
Madurai
Lat:9N56;
Long:79E07

Two argalas 3/11, 5/9

Lagna 18°54' Mars 9°08' Venus 13°46'

Sun 16°45' Mercury 26°22' Saturn 2225
Moon 20°40' Jupiter eal Rahu 5°01'
AK Mercury MK Sun DK Jupiter
AmK Saturn PK Venus KL Simha
BK Moon GK Mars
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But that makes no difference to the Karakas of the horoscope

and the Karakamsha. In Jaimini astroloy if the Karakas are not
disturbed, one can work with wrong degrees of an ascendant. But that
ascendant should be correct for higher uses of Jaimini.
The Karakamsha is Leo and the 10th house from there is being
aspected by Venus and the Moon.
But the 5th lord goes into the 8th house and is with Mars and
Ketu.
She started learning dance at the very late age of twenty five
by which time other modern women dancers begin to reach the peak
of their careers. It was the period of Pisces in chara dasha from where
the Moon is in his own house, the fifth house.
She continued these lessons for some years and had the courage
to defy all orthodox conventions first when she decided to marry
Arundale, a foreigner very early in her life and later when she
decided to learn Bharat Natyam. At the age of 31 years when she
decided to give her first public performance she had to face the worst
type of hostility and humiliations. Stones were pelted at her and she
was even spat upon. All this happened in the dasha of Pisces from
where the.third house of courage receives the aspect of Saturn,
Mercury and Venus and 5th house has the Moon aspected by the
Sun.
Compared to modern female dancers she could not be called
a top class dancer in purest classical mould is the judgement of many
modern connosieurs of dance. She is remembered as a crusading
pioneer who brought this great dance form (according to some the
greatest dance form of the world) back on to the public stage. It being
a dance to be danced only by women, no male could have done
it at all though the best of the Bharat Natyam teachers in those years
might have been males.
In 1926 she learnt western dances from the world famous Anna
Pavlova, the Russian ballerina. In 1935 she gave her first public
performance. It was the dasha of Aquarius from
where Saturn, Mercury, the Moon and Venus aspected her 10th
house. If the orthodox society opposed her, there were the great
leaders of the Theosophical Society led by the brilliant rebellious Irish
woman Annie Beasant who had made India her home
and had fought against the tyranny of British imperialism supporting
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Sun Venus |Lagna

Rahu Saturn
Navamsha

Jupiter

her also. The ultimate victory was Rukmini’s. The orthodox society
melted away. Today the descendants of the opponents of Rukmini want
their daughters to learn Bharat Natyam.
The aspects of Atmakaraka, Amatyakaraka, Putrakaraka and the
Bhatrikaraka on the 10th house from the Karakamsha appears to be
a very good explanation for her sky rocketing fame. Not as a
performer but as a pioneer she has her immortal place in Indian
history. In 1978 when the then prime minister of India, Morarji Desai
had proposed her name for the highest post of the president of India
he was opposed. But that she could be even thought of for the post

Marilyn Monroe
June 1, 1926
09:30 a.m.
Los Angeles
Lat:34N04
Long:118W15

Atmakaraka:Saturn, Argala : 4/10

Lagna 20°16' Mars 27°54' Venus 200). 3
Sun 7°37" Mercury rar Saturn (Rk) 28°37"
Moon 26°16' Jupiter 4°00' Rahu 24°04'
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of the first citizen of India and could even be supported by a segement

of elitist classes shows the esteem in which she was held. She had
become a cult figure.
The joke cracked then was that Morarji born on 29th February
wanted to bring in as president one born like him on 29th February
in a leap year.
| therefore have no doubt that Karakamsha has to be used only
in the birth horoscope. If the full Navamsha js to be used it should
be called swamsha /agna as some north Indian astrologers do.
This horoscope can be discussed for the argalas present.
This is one case where the Karakamsha in the Navamsha is
equally brilliant like the Karakamsha in the birth horoscope.
Will we be justified then in concluding that ifboth the Karakamsha
and Swamsha horoscopes the same promises are repeated the event

Navamsha

seen and predictable is sure to happen? We will have to wait and

test it more.

Case Nine : The Importance of the Third House

It should be remembered that the 3rd house and the 3rd lord from
the birth horoscope and the Karakamsha are very significant factors
for performing arts. Along with it the 6th house
and the 6th lord and the 9th house and the 9th lord seem to become
very important. Let these parameters be tested on
the horoscope of the famous actress of Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe.
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Marilyn Monroe is remembered not as a dancer but as a world

famous actress of Hollywood whose horoscope is used by Vedic
astrologers of USA because perhaps her death was mysterious and
tragic. Yet since it is an undisputed horoscope it may be seen here
that neither from her birth lagna nor Navamsha lagna is there any
artistic influence on the third house. But from her Karakamsha in the
birth horoscope both the Moon and Venus aspect the 3rd house, Leo.
Again the fame giver, Saturn aspects the 10th lord Jupiter trom the
Karakamsha.
Her Navamsha shows artistic influence on her 3rd house
from Karakamsha and also the 10th house from the Navamsha
lagna.
For sound analysis of a horoscope, four-fold analysis must be made:
(a) The birth horoscope and the Karakamsha of the birth horoscope.
(b) Then the Navamsha horoscope and the Swamsha
horoscope which is the Karakamsha in the entire Navamsha
chart.

Case Ten : India’s cine super star

Amitabh Bachchan
From the lagna the third house receives the aspect of the Moon while
the 3rd lord Mars is with Venus which is debilitated.
From Karakamsha lagna the 3rd house has the Moon in the rashi
of Venus.
From Karakamsha lagna the Moon together with vargottama
Jupiter aspects the 10th house. No wonder world has known no other
actor adored by billions in terms of numbers, over 800 millions in
India and another 1000 millions outside India. His super star status
remains unequalled in India and the world.
The swamsha is equally impressive, in fact, more.
Itis for this reason that both Karakamsha and Swamsha horoscpes
should be examined together but the Karakamsha horoscope must
be distinguished from the Swamsha horoscope.
1. Another important factor to be remembered is to see if Saturn
or Mercury are aspecting the Karakamsha or/and the 10th
house from it. That is. a well known combination for fame.
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Saturn

b Amitabh Bacchan
Lagna | “Oct. 11, 1942
Ketu 3:00 p.m.
(corrected war time)
Allahabad
Lat:25N28;
Long:72E36

Atmakaraka: Sun
Lagna 159! Mars 22°36' Venus TSP
Sun 24°23' Mercury 27°39 Saturn 19°14'
Moon 10°19! Jupiter 0°32' Rahu 10°26'

Mars
Jupiter
Rahu
Navamsha

Ketu
KL
~

2. Then see if the Moon and Venus are aspecting the 10th house
from the Karakamsha and the Karakamsha itself. That is also a
combination for fame.
3. Include a similar examination of the Amatyakaraka and the 10th
house from Karakamsha.
Examine all these from the Swamsha horoscope as well.

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4
Results of Karakamsha

ltshould be remembered that a Sanskrit sutra should be translated

in three ways: the shabdartha orthe literal meaning, the bhavartha
the implied meaning and the /akshyartha the hidden meaning. The
books available on Jaimini astrology give only the literal meaning as
a result of which the results of Karakamsha as given in the translations
available emphasize negativity. |t makes astrology look like a science
of gloom and despair.
Karakamsha in different rashis have to have a meaning other
than the one given in the books. Look at what has been given.

Karakamsha In
Aries: Fears of bites of rats, cats and other similar animals (B.S.R
or B. Suryanarain Rao). The same meaning has been given by PS.S.
(PS. Sastri). S.C.M. (Dr. Suresh Chandra Misra) repeats it in his Hindi
translation.
Taurus: Fear from quadrupeds (BS). Fear or happiness from
quadrupeds (PSS). The same is repeated. (SCM)
Gemini: Corpulence, itches (BSR). Skin ailments, stoutness (PSS).
The same (SCM).
Cancer: Dangers and troubles from watery places (BSR). Also
leprosy (PSS). The same (SCM).
Leo: Troubles through canine animals (BSR). Accidents by falling from
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high places or falling from conveyances (PSS). Fear of bites of dogs

and cats (SCM).
Virgo: Suffers from fires, itches and corpulence (BSR). Same (PSS).
Fear of fire, corpulence and itches (SCM).
Libra: Money from merchandise (BSR). Will be in trade and
commerce. Same (SCM). Only now a positive, only positive result has
been given.
Scorpio: Fears and dangers from watery animals, snakes and he
will have no milk from his own mother (BSR). Same (PSS). Sa(SCM).
Sagittarius: Suffering and fall from conveyances and also from
elevated houses, trees, hills and mountains (BSR). Same (PSS). Same
(SCM).
Capricorn: Troubles from acquatic animals, from fierce birds, large
wounds and glandular expansions (BSR). Same (PSS). Same (SCM).
Aquarius: Does charities, construction of temples etc. (BSR). Same
(PSS). Same (SCM). After Libra here only positive results have bee
given.
Pisces: Virtuous deeds, will attain to final bliss (BSR). Same (PSS).
Same (SCM). Like Acquarius this has been singled out for spiritual
gains.
Note :Out of twelve rashis only three are said to be good and the
remaining bad.
No translator has even given any indication of the positive side
of the nine bad rashis except SCM who only qualifies it all by saying
that if well aspected, the bad results may not happen.
Let us examine the Karakamsha of some well known world
personalities see if these results were visible in their lives.

Case Eleven: King George VI

Karakamsha is in Pisces which promises salvation.
We neither know whether King George VI was a spiritual
personality and whether he attained salvation after his death. To
decide the spirituality of a horoscope many combinations have to be
considered. The defect with all the books on Jaimini is that except
Dr. PS. Sastri no other writer has even tried to synthesize various
factors through example charts.
PS. Sastri gives many charts in his books to help understand the
meaning ofJaimini better than his predecessor writers. But his analysis
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Sun Mars
Mer Moon,

King George VI Jupiter

14 Dec. 1895
03;05a.m. LMT ®
Lat:52N51

IMSun F,agna
rat ste
Moon | Venus
Lagna 22°22! Mercury 25°50' 25°50!
Sun 29°30' Jupiter 16°11' 25°50!
Moon 02°26' Venus digeasls Sun
Mars 08°57' Saturn 22°22' Pisces

is static. He never discusses the Jaimini dashas and shows why an

event took place when it did.

Case Twelve : Nizam of Hyderabad

Like King George VI, Nizam of Hyderabad also has his Karakamsha
in Pisces. He enjoyed life, had a large harem and was not known
as a spiritual person af all.

upiter
®)
6

Lat: 17N30
Long: 70E30

Lagna 0°25' Mercury (R) 28°52' 23°40'

Sun 24°48' Jupiter 6°48" 23°40'
Moon 22°53! Venus 11°09" Mercury
Mars 14°15 Saturn 10°16' Pisces
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Contrast these two horoscopes with that of the great saint,

Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and see the difference.

Case Thirteen: Ramakrishna Paramhanmsa

Here the lagna lord, Saturn is exalted in the 9th house of spiritual
practices and the 9th lord Venus is exalted in Pisces. The 10th lord,
Mars is exalted in the 12th house and Jupiter in the Sth house of
the spiritual merits of past life contacts both the lagna lord, Saturn
and the 5th lord Mercury in the lagna.
It is after an assessment like this (should be done in greater
details) that the meaning of Karakamsha would become clear. A sutra
of Jaimini “ucche shubhe loke” which all commentators have
interpreted as, the presence of a benefic in the 12th house from
Karakamsha leads to salvation. In the case of Paramhamsa it applies,
if Cancer as the Karakamsha in the birth ascendant is treated as the
Karakamsha.
In this controversy as to haw Karakamsha is to be used it should
be remembered that in no astrological book, except Jataka Bharanam
is the Navamsha made use of for yogas even. In any case all
astrologer-writers make use of the birth horoscope first. In all well
known Sanskrit classics on astrology, Navamsha interpretations are

Lagna 2°29 Mercury 15°08' Rahu 2st"

Sun 6°53' Jupiter (R) 14°33' Ketu 20°31'
Moon 22°04' Venus 9°04' AK Mars
Mars 27°15" Saturn (R) 13°41' KL Cancer
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rarely given. Why then for Karakamsha has the entire Navamsha
come to be used seems to be enigmatic. When astrologers do not
use Navamsha even in their predictions so effectively in the Parashari
system why have they concluded that the Karakamsha should be used
for Navamsha only? An acceptable explanation could be that
Karakamsha should be used only when different Navamsha dashas
are employed.

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5
Controversy about Pada or
ha Lagna

Pada lagna and padas for all houses should be prepared.

| have shown it in my book on Predicting through Jaimini’s

Chara Dasha.

The Enigma
B.Suryanarain Rao states in his book, (p. 92) “If arudha bhavas fall
in 6, 8, or 12 from Lagna, they denote evils to such bhavas”. He
does not explain the riddles inherent in this.
Let it be explained: If the lord of lagna is in the lagna he stays
there as pada, if in the second he goes to the third house, if: in
the third he goes to the fifth, if in the fourth, he goes to the seventh
etc. The pada of lagna never falls in the the 6th or the 8th or the
12th houses at all. So is with the padas of odd houses.

Harmony in Married Life

It will be noticed that the padas of odd houses from lagna skip the
6th, 8th and 12 houses. How then is this sutra to be understood 2?
There is a different and a complex way of doing it. B.S. Rao has
produced no research on Jaimini to explain it. We must keep
struggling to arrive at some very satisfactory meaning. Dr. Raman
has never even referred to it in his book on Jaimini. PS. Sastri takes
up the same sutra (p.100)and translates it thus, “If the arudha lagna
and the arudha of the seventh (darapada) are mutually in 6, 8, 12
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houses, there can be no mutual harmony between husband and wife.

They will always be inimical.” This also is not possible.
In sutra 20 it has been said that if they fall in kendras, trikonas
or upachayas except the 6th “there will be great agreement
between the husband and the wife” says Suryanarain Rao.
According to my research if both the Karakamsha and the Upa
pada are taken together and the second and the seventh house from
them is examined conjointly, the picture becomes very clear.
Adhyaya One, Pada three and Sutra 17 (p.93 of B.S. Rao’s
book and p.98 of Sastri) creates a difference between the
Karakamsha and the padas. ‘A// the sutras explained in the above
sutras will have application and reference as they have had in the

Male
August 12, 1948
9:43 p.m.
Delhi

Jupiter
(R)
Moon
Lagna ee°ee! Mercury 27°36 Rahu ~—-15°30!
Sun 26°42' Jupiter 25°59 Ketu 15°30!
Moon 7°05' Venus 13°02' AK Mercury
Mars 22°49' Saturn 2°10' KL Pisces

Jupiter
Ketu
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Karakamsa.” PS. Sastri supports it without giving any example. So

let us try on some horoscopes.

Case Fourteen
Ifthe horoscope is analysed from the pure Parashari angle the marital
tension is crystal clear both in the birth horoscope and the navamsha.
From Jaimini the pada of the 7th is in the eleventh from the
lagna arudha but it has not helped ease any marital tension. If
Karakamsha is used in the birth horoscope, Mars in the 7th house
explains the tension of his married life. And darakaraka, Saturn in
the 6th house from Karakamsha explains and confirms it further.
Now take the navamsha and put karakamsha there. There is
no such tension visible unless the Moon, the gnathikaraka is treated
as the trouble maker in the 7th house.
| have hundreds of such instances to prove that Karakamsha
in the birth horoscope gives better results.
Arudhas are not to be explained away so glibly as B.Suryanarain
Rao has done. It will need years of research to understand the secret
uses of padas.
See another instance which is more baffling. Both the birth
horoscope and navamsha together with karakas are being given to
prove a point.

Mars :
Ketu Lagna
1P,

38h
Jupitter
wc Venus (Rr) a

R
Lagna 22°22! Mercury 28°08' Rahu 17°49'
Sun 8°44' Jupiter 18°20' Ketu 17°49
Moon 28°09 Venus 22°41' AK Moon
Mars 15°29! Saturn (R) 25°46' KL Gemini
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Ketu
Sun
Jupiter
Moon S) 3
2
Venus
Navamsha

Case Fifteen
His divorced wife married a rich man. That rich man’s earlier wife
committed suicide.
He has not been able to overcome the shock of that betrayal.
This man has developed an incurable ailment, his own shock
by the betrayal of his wife has been so great.
The mutual position of the Pada Lagna and the pada of the
seventh though favourable has not saved the marriage is the point
| am stressing. The explanation of the sutra is misleading.

Case Sixteen
Here is another case in which there was great deception in marriage
Jupiter
(R)
6

Jupiter

Atmakaraka-Mercury; Karakamsha-Scorpio.
Lagna 9°43! Mercury 24°07' Rahu 2°22'
Sun 19°24! Jupiter 8°07' Ketu 222)
Moon 9°54 Venus iF" AK Mercury
Mars 2216: Saturn 19°01' KL Scorpio
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when the girl’s side is said to have played lot of tricks to deprive him
both of his money and his wife finally. The identity is not being
disclosed and no details are being given.
Apply all the Jaimini principle given in the books of B.Suryanarain
Rao and PS. Sastri and you will end up in disastrous confusion.
There is of course a clear explanation in Parashari. But in Jaimini
astrology if the entire problem is look in a different way the answer
becomes clear. Examine aspects on the darakaraka and start from
there. That is an area of research.

Some Other Controversies

Karakas
It is well known that ancient Indian astrologers calculated the degrees
of planets upto amsha (degree) pal (minutes) vipal (seconds) and
anupal at least because of some very valid scientific reason.
There is a dispute how the seven karakas are to be calculated.
If two karakas have same degrees and minutes then they bring in
Rahu to fill in the gap.
In deciding the karakas of the planets if the calculation is done
upto even the third level, no two Karakas can have the same
degree. If upto the fourth level, there will never be any disputes
which karakas come into picture to occupy the roles of the seven
known karakas. Rahu thus is not to be considered at all or if Rahu
is given a role it cannot clash with other planets and in that case
one of the seven planets will have to get excluded or eight karakas
will have to be used. This will remain an unresolved controversy.
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Some Unclear Areas

Argalas
In Jaimini astrology argalas are referred to but no one has shown
how it actually operates. Argalas are fetters which can be understood
if you put one finger next to the ascendant and the other behind.
Keep doing it till you reach the 5th house from the lagna
2 and 12
3 and 11
4 and 10
5 and 9
If there are planets in both the houses, they cause argala.
What are these argalas is what PS. Sastri illustrated in his book.
The starting of argalaspointscan be, the ascendant,the karakamsha
or the aspecting planet itself. When and how they operate ? Are
they to be considered in the navamsha also ?
Varahamihira makes use of this scheme of argala for
combination for imprisonment. | have tested them and found them
correct.
But we must show how argalas are to be used for predictions.
It is what no writer has done. The meaning is clear. They never
did any research in this area. They merely explain what argala is
literally means and stop.
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In the horoscopes given so far, in cases, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 such

argalas have been mentioned inside the horoscope. Their life details
could be taken up and argalas studied.
Then comes the most crucial question: are argalas a
permanent onbstruction present in a horoscope or they have
their influence in a running dasha only as they are said to
happen during the currency of a dasha when bahya and bhoga
rashis are to be considered. How exactly these are used is again
a dark area.

The Longevity Factor

All Jaimini commentators are agreed that three factors are to be taken
into account in the calculation of longevity. Here the issues are
discussed without any illustration.
If two out of the three give loge medium of short life, it will
prevail. If there is a conflict, the Hora lagna and the lagna will be
the deciding factor is as the soundest approach. And there are other
factors increasing of decreasing the longevity calculated.
(a) The lords of the lagna and the 8th house is no disputed as the
first factor.
(b) Lords of the ascendant and the hora lagna is also not disputed.
(c) The third factor is either lagna and the Moon or Saturn or the
Moon. The confusion is caused by the sutra, evam manda-
chandra-bhyam. Manda can mean Saturn because it is a
slowest moving planet out of the nine used by Indian
astrologers.
Now if in the third factor lagna is to be used, lagna would have
to be taken twice and Saturn not even once. Saturn is the planet
to be considered for longevity generally. But in all longevity factors
the body represented by the lagna cannot be forgotten.
Thus according to one scheme, we take lagna lord once and
lagna twice while according to the other, the lagna lord once, lagna
once and Saturn once with other factors which are, the 8th lord
only once Hora lagna only once and Saturn, if takenonly once.
Ther an exception is given in the case where the Moon is in
the 7th house. “From the lord of these two must be taken as the
definite term of a man’s life” says Suryanarain Rao (p130) but PS.
Sastri wanted the lagna and the Moon to be taken into account.
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If we follow Suryanarain Rao perhaps it would mean lord of

the lagna and the Moon sign lord not the Moon. It is again a matter
of research. Sutras 10, 11, 12 and 13 of Pada one, Adhyaya Two
refers to the role of Saturn in becoming a factor in causing kakhya
hras (reduction in longevity). If Saturn is to be considered for
longevity only according to its lordship it will apply to Cancer for
which it is the 8th lord, or Capricorn or Aquarius ascendants for
which it is the ascendant lord. This complicates matters.

Dwara and Bahya Rashis

In the calculation of longevity the two other factors brought into use
are the Dwara Rashi, which is the rashi whose dasha is running, and
Bahya rashi, which is the rashi as far away from the dwara rashi as
the dwara rashi is from the lagna.
Then again benefic and malefic influences on these rashis are
to be seen. What are these influences ? Do they include Brahma,
Rudra and Maheshwara ? No author has clarified it.
It should be obvious to anyone that while PS.Sastri gives
some illustration to explain some sutras of Jaimini, Suryanarain
Rao who had no research to his credit in Jaimini gives only his
translation and passes on to the next sutra. This is very
unsatisfactory.

Hora Lagna
In the calculation of the Hora lagna Sitaram Jha took only the Sun
for both odd and even lagnas, while south Indian astrologers take
the Sun only when the lagna is odd. ;
| have referred to these confusions because when it comes to
the actual use of the dashas of Jaimini there i$ worse confusion.
So | will now refer to some of the dashas and give my understanding
of one of the dashas, other than the chara dasha on which the book
| have written has given to hundreds in India and USA, where |
showed my research, very good results.

Rudra
To decide Rudra first the strength of the planets are to be calculated
and between the 8th and the 2nd lords the stronger one is to be
picked up for the position of Rudra. But if the weaker of the two
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receives malefic aspect, it becomes the Rudra. Suryanarain Rao

refers to two “Rudras” (p.146) causing more confusion while PS.
Sastri sticks to one Rudra only.

Maheshwara
The lord of the 8th from Atmakaraka becomes Maheshwara but if
he is exalted or in his own house, then the lord of the 12th from
the Atmakaraka will also have to be considered. The stronger of the
two becomes Maheshwara. Here there is no controversy about two
Maheshwaras.

Brahma
The most confusing is the calculation of Brahma. The steps are:
(a) Find out the stronger of the two houses between the lagna and
the 7th house.
(b) Find out the the strongest of the 6th, 8th and 12th lords from
there. He will qualify to be Brahma.
(c) If Saturn , Rahu or Ketu qualify to be Brahma, count the the
6th from there.
Note: There is no method given for calculation of the strength
of Rahu or Ketu. How will this issue be decided is glossed over by
all commentators.
Note: Then an exception too is given. If too many planets qualify
to be Brahma which of them is to be taken. According to
Suryanarain Rao the planet “next in degrees to Atmakaraka”
(meaning Amatyakaraka) becomes Brahma. It is more confusing
because in some cases Saturn may stand in such a position. (p.152)
PS. Sastri takes the one with highest degrees and does not say
that it has to be next to Atmakaraka.

Special Rules
PS. Sastri gives some special rules which B.V.Raman also mentions
in his book. Brahma has to be in an odd rashi, Aries, Gemini, Leo,
Libra, Sagittarius or Aquarius.
Raman insists that it should also be in the visible half.
Try these special rules and there will be many horoscopes
without Brahma. A Punjab astrologer laughed at rules and quoted

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from a commentary of Neelakantha and said that exclude Saturn

when he becomes a candidate, consider the stronger of the
remaining two. No other conditions were to be followed. He proved
his point by calculating correctly the longevity of persons whose
horoscopes | had given to him.
| follow this method because according to the Punjab astrologer
a horoscope without Brahma would be meaningless, Brahma being
the Creator has to be there in every horoscope. Without Brahma
Sthira and Brahma dashas cannot be calculated. There can be no
horoscope without the Sthira dasha or Brahma. Raman who hardly
produced any research on Jaimini has quoted this in his book
without realising the consequences of these conditions.
Both PS. Sastri and Suryanarain Rao are modest in admitting
that calculation of the period of death of parents etc. are very
difficult areas. Sastri talks of the oral tradition and need to learn
it from a guru since Jaimini calls his sutras ypdeshas, which are
to be learnt from .gurus only and not through books.
It is true. The Punjab astrologer used Shoola dasha to mark
out the fatal period for any relation in the family. In his scheme
invariably six houses were death inflicting houses for a family
member. Out of these six he could easily mark the most fatal rashi
and calculate the period of death within nine months.
| pieced up the fragments of whatever he told me in some
minutes, succeeded in some cases but found so much gloom inside
me that | could not work further on it. But he also put me on oath
of secrecy. This is what PS. Sastri is hinting at. But it was a very
sound and easy method | thought.

Navamsha Dasha
But then PS. Sastri has given a rather confused account of the
navamsha dasha. The navamsha dasha is to be applied to navamsha
only, not to the birth horoscope. In the third pada of the second
chapter Jaimini has given only two sutras about the navamsha dasha.
Clearly the word mentioned here navamsha thus “ Vishame Tadardir-
Navamsha" meaning from an odd sign this begins from the lagna
itself. Then the second sutra, “Same Adarshadih’. What is the
meaning of “Adarsha”2 Is it the 4th house from the lagna or the

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seventh. PS. Sastri calls it the seventh for even ascendants and Suresh
Chandra gives a more twisted interpretation, stating that it will move
in backward motion which is confusing because in that Jaimini would
have said “apsavya” or backward or anti-clockwise not “adarsha”.
Suryanarain and Sastri give another interpretation which means
that in a movable sign with even lagna (Cancer and Capricorn) the
dasha would commense from the 8th house, while in an even and
fixed sign (Taurus and Scorpio it would be from the 6th house.
All these commentators have given no thought to the word
navamsha here. They have taken it as a nine year dasha periods
and not the navamsha lagna. They make it resemble largely like
Nirayan Shoola Dasha. The justification given for it by Suryanarain
Rao is that since each rashi contains nine navamsha it is called
Navamsha dasha. No commentator has given any illustration to
prove whether he has used this dasha at all and found it working.
They are more interested in displaying their knowledge of Sanskrit
and showing their skill in interpreting the meaning of “adarsha”.
Yet to some extent Sastri seems to grapple with the problem
and then gives it up and proceeds to discuss the Sthira Dasha.
The line of research | have adopted is totally different and has
given me correct results so far. The research is continuing.

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Jamini’s Dasha

No one knows how Jaimini’s dashas are to be used in which situation.

Out of nearly 44 dashas only Niryana Shoola Dasha has been used
parlly for predicting deaths and sicknesses. Chara dasha was not used
for specefic events till | came out with my book and presented it. It
has been tried successfully both in India and USA with a very high
percentage of success. Being satisfied with that I tried at least sixteen
other dashas and succeeded very well with them. | will present one
more here now.

Were any Jaimini scholar asked to categorize these dashas he

would find it difficult to be very clear about it. Yet it appears that
we could do it tentatively thus:

Types
The first category is: there are all purpose dashas like the Chara dasha
or specific-purpose dashas like Niryana Shoola Dasha or Brahma
Dashas which are to be used for fatal events only.
The second one is general dashas for all horoscopes and
specefic dashas according to planetary positions. Here come in
dashas like Mandooka and Trikona dashas.
The third category is, some used only for the birth horoscopes
are known are Rashi dashas while some are to be used only on
the navamsha and are known as navamshas or padnadhamsha
dashas.
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Order
(a) Dashas which move with regularity in forward or backward
motion.
(b) Dashas which jump from quadrants to quadrants, trines to
trines, or sixth house to sixth or eighth houses to eighth house.

Periods
(a) In some cases dasha periods are fixed.
(b) In some cases they are variable. Here for each horoscope the
dasha years are to be counted according to the situation of
planets in a given horoscope.
Out of so many | have worked onlampresening here Mandook
Dasha which is a specefic and variable dasha. | am doing so
because it is applicable to my horoscope and | have tried on similar
horoscopes.
By now | have given predictions successfully to over two
hundred persons mainly on the basis of Mandook dasha. | am
therefore confident that what | am presenting is the correct method
of doing it.

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SECTION IT

5
Mandook Dasha of Jaimini

Ihad seen a written example of a prediction given by late

Vemuri Ramamurthy about whom | have written in the dedication to
my book on Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha and about
whom | had the feeling that if he had done his astrology in English
language and in a metropolitan city he would have been remembered
as the greatest astrologer of the last six hundred years. | struggled
with it and found that it was a rashi dasha. Then | later found that
it was Mandook dasha. Later | came across some more examples
and taking hints from there | did research on this dasha. Proceeding
thus | have done researches on many other dashas which | will, God
willing, produce later. Yet inside me remains the haunting fear the
astrology being an abusable knowledge it can fall into wrong hands.
But there is also the luminous hope that there are very bright students
whom | have taught and who, being morally upright will have tested
many of my original researches and found defects here and there
but becoming applicable in over sixty percent cases. In every case
|will give some parameters which can be applied and “blind-tested.”

Dr. Suresh Chandra Misra interprets “Adarsha” in one way in

interpreting the Navamsha Dasha but in explaining Mandook Dasha
he takes the seventh house, if that is stronger, then the ascendant
as “adarsha”. All this confusion arises because he has not
experimented with the dasha to see how it is to be used for
predictions. (p.138 read with p.122).
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Then the worst defect is that no one has even mentioned

how the dasha periods are to be counted. There is no confusion
in Sthira Dasha where 7, 8 and 9 years are given to chara, sthira
and dwisabhava rashis or in the Niryana Shoola dasha where each
rashi gets a period of nine years. How is the dasha period to be
counted in the case of Mandook ? Has anyone worked on it ?

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Features of Mandook Dasha

lam giving my research here which is not perfect or fool-proof but

has given me over sixty percent correct results. It is being presented
with the hope that some bright and open-minded astrologers will
improve upon it in the years to come.

Applicability
1. Mandook dasha is applicable only to horoscopes in which there
are four or more planets, other than Rahu and Ketu, in
quadrants or kendras from the lagna.
2. These four planets may be in, one, two, three or four
quadrants.
The only necessary condition they must fulfil is that there must
be at least four planets other than Rahu and Ketu in kendras.

The Starting Point

(1) It will start from the ascendant if it is an odd sign, Aries, Gemini,
Leo, Libra, Sagittarius or Aquarius.
(2) It will start from the seventh house if the ascendant is an even
sign.
Note: Some commentators say that it will start from the strongest
house among the quadrants while others say that it must start from
the stronger of the two, the ascendant or the 7th house. My
experience shows that in the case of Mandook dasha it is not
necessary to calculate the graha or rashi bala. The confusion seems
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to have arisen from the reading of sutra 15 of the fourth pada

of second chapter which reads thus:

Stooladrsha-vaishamya-ashraye Mandook-strikootah.

Here since both the word ‘trikoota’ (meaning three categories of

quadrants, cardinal, fixed and mutable houses have been used) and
the even and odd signs are referred to, commentators thought of
interpreting in terms of Sthira dasha where one must find out the
stronger of the lagna and the seventh house.
Proceed in direct order in case of odd rashis and indirect in
the case of even rashis.

Dasha Years
How much should be dasha years ? Sastri and Misra say that itshould
be 7 years for cardinal signs, 8 years for fixed and 9 years for
mutable. Here again somewhere the principles of Sthira dasha have
got mixed up with all this.
| have found after discussion with different astrologers that here
dasha years are variable. In each case they have to be calculated.
Note: There is a special rule for counting dasha years also.

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Applicability
From a reading given to someone the late Vemuri
Rammurthi Shastri made a remark that since four planets other than
Rahu and Ketu were in quadrants from the Lagna, the special rashi
dasha known as the Mandook Dasha should be applied to the
horoscope. | noted down mentally the dasha calculations he had made
and the remarkable predictions and readings he had done. Later |
checked that the degrees of planets he had used were wrong.
Therefore before proceeding to do any horoscope reading make sure
that:

(a) Horoscope is based on correct birth time :

(b) It has been cast on the basis of the Chitrapaksha ayanamsha
only. | have done researches in sixteen dashas of Jaimini.In all
those cases |found only the Chitrapaksha ayanamsha working.
All other ayanamshas led me into wrong alleys of astrological
readings.
(c) Since there is no hint available in any written book as to which
dasha would apply to which horoscope, specifically | did all my
researches by taking hints from the readings of Vemuri
Rammurthy Shastri about which | have made a mention in my
book, “Predicting through Jaimini’ Chara Dasha. Once again
here let me remember him gratefully before discussing the
Mandook Dasha.

Applicability : My View
Apply Mandook Dasha if only the following conditions are fulfilled.

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(a) If four or more planets out of Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury,

Jupiter Venus and Saturn are in kendras or quadrants from the
ascendant, apply this dasha. Remember,it is a specific dasha
dependent on planetary patterns.
(b) Rahu and Ketu have been excluded by me so far. May be that
they should be included and | am committing a mistake. Yet
| am subject to correction if someone pointed it out through
practical examples to me. In the meantime | will try by taking Rahu
and Ketu also even in this, book.

Case Seventeen
See the following horoscope of a youngman born in that dangerous
year 1962 when India and China had a war and India’s international
prestige had sunk low. India’s foreign exchange had sunk so low and
economic disasters faced by the nation for the next two decades, with
the droughts of 1966 and 1967, had affected the nation adversly.
The then Prime Minister of India had a stroke of paralysis and died
two years later. USA and USSR nearly clashed on the Bay of Pigs
decision and the world was on the brink of war.
Children born during that period had a complex horoscope
which has ruined the reputation of many astrologers. With a house

11:15am
Lat. 20.N 30
Long. 85 E 50

Vimshottari Dasha Balance of Rahu: 12y 4m 26d

Lagna 23°43' Mars 10°0'18" Venus 26°01'

Sun 23°27" Mercury(R) 22°02' Saturn 10°39"
Moon — 10°40! Jupiter 25°36' Ketu 24°46'
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so overcrowded is it possible to do reading without applying any

other technique ? It will be shown that through Mandook dasha in
the case given here how easy it was for me to analyse the
horoscope.
In this horoscope there are six planets except Rahu and Ketu
in kendra from lagna so the Mandook dasha will apply. The
horoscope is discussed under the example of Mesha.

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4
Dasha Order

Meaning of Mandook
Mandook means frog. The frog leaps here to the 4th house from
its place.
Note: Those who know the Kaal Chakra Dasha system will see
the difference. In that dasha the frog leap is to the 3rd house.

Starting Point
Mandook Dasha (the abbreviation used will be MD) starts from the
Lagna when the ascendant is in an odd rashi.
It will invariably start from the 7th house when it is even rashi.
For the facility of readers ready made tables are being given.

Dasha Sequence
In case of odd lagna, start from the lagna in direct order.
In case of even lagna, start from the seventh house and more
in indirect order.

The Nature of Frog Jumps

If the dasha starts from chara or cardinal lagna itfirst covers the four
cardinal signs, then the next four houses which can be either sthira
or fixed in the case of odd rashis or dwiswbhava in the case of even
signs. It will be shown both in the tables and examples given in the
book.
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TABLE |

Aries : Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn then

(Odd) Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius then
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.

Taurus : Scorpio, Leo, Taurus and Aquarius then

(Even) Libra, Cancer, Aries and Capricorn then
Virgo, Gemini, Pisces and Sagittarius.

Gemini : Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces then

(Odd) Cancer, Libra, Capricorn and Aries then
Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus.

Cancer : Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Aries then

(Even) Sagittarius, Virgo, Gemini and Pisces then
Scorpio, Leo, Taurus and Aquarius.

Leo : — Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus then

(Odd) Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces and Gemini then
Libra, Capricorn, Aries and Cancer.

Virgo : Pisces, Sagittarius, Virgo and Gemini then

(Even) Aquarius, Scorpio, Leo and Taurus then
Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Aries.

Libra : Libra, Capricorn, Aries and Cancer then

(Odd) Scorpio, Aquarius, Taurus and Leo then
Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini and Virgo.

Scorpio : Taurus, Aquarius, Scorpio and Leo then

(Even) Aries, Capricorn, Libra and Cancer then
Pisces, Sagittarius, Virgo and Gemini.

Sagittarius : Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini and Virgo then

(Odd) Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra then
Aquarius, Taurus, Leo and Scorpio.

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Capricorn Cancer, Aries, Capricorn and Libra then

(Even) Gemini, Pisces, Sagittarius and Virgo then.
Taurus, Aquarius, Scorpio and Leo.

Aquarius Aquarius, Taurus, Leo and Scorpio then

(Odd) Pisces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius then
Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.

Pisces Virgo, Gemini, Pisces and Sagittarius then

(Even) Leo, Taurus, Aquarius and Scorpio then
Cancer, Aries, Capricorn and Libra.

Table Il: (Chara or Cardinal)

Odd Even
Rashi Mesha or Aries Karka or Cancer
Order 1, 4, 7, 10 10, 7, 4, 1
2 an at 976.8,02
3, 6,9, 12 Oy55.2711

Odd Even
Rashi Tula or Libra Makar or Capricorn
Order 7,10,1,4 4,1, 10,7

SdAi2s 312,956
tes 3, 6 2711 28),5
TABLE Ill: (Sthira or Even)

Odd Even
Rashi Simha or Leo Vrisha or Taurus
Order foyah= agi Rs B52)11

6,9;:32,3 7,4, 1,10

7,10,1,4 6; 3, V2.9

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Odd Even
Rashi Kumbha or Vrischika or
Aquarius Scorpio
Order 19;2,578 2 1T, 8,5

12, 3, 6,9 1,10, 7,4

10, 1, 4,7 W249: 6,3
TABLE IV: (Dwiswamhava or Mutable)

Odd Even
Rashi Mithuna or Gemini Kanya or Virgo
Order Boron le 12,.9;0;3

4,7,10,1 ifhPe BRN

1,4, 7, 10 10, 7,4, 1
Odd Even
Rashi Dhanu or Sagittarius Meena or Pisces
Order 9 12,3;6 12,9, 6,3

10, 1, 4,7 1148;6,:2

ibe 2p dd 10,7, 4,1
Sub Periods
Savya Order
If the dasha order is direct, forward or clockwise, the sub-periods
will follow the same order.

Apsavya Order
If the dasha order is indirect, backward or anti-clockwise, the sub-
dasha will follow the same.
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D
Data to be Prepared for
Predictions

Follow the steps given below carefully.

Ascendant or Lagna
Make sure that the ascendant or lagna is correct. In Jaimini astrology
when you are using rashi dashas if the lagna is correct but its degrees
wrong, you can still predict correctly.

Jaimini Karakas
Make sure that the karakas are not affected. If there is any change
in karakas the entire Jaimini astrology will become fruitless for you.

Chitrapaksha or Lahiri Ayanamsha Only

Make sure that you use only the Chitrapaksha ayanamsha. Use of
any other ayanamsha will make a world of difference to karakas.
It is disastrous to use degrees which affect all varga or divisional
charts, all Jaimini Karakas and the Vimshottari dasha partly or in some
cases very substantially.

Two Charts
Make sure in the beginning to use two charts, for Mandook Dasha
or Chara dashas, one for the horoscope with degrees and the other
asmall one for Karakas, with the navamsha position of darakakaraka
marked out prominently along with darapada and upapada. See the
following example.
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3 1
Jupiter

Ea2
Female
March 1, 1954

9
Saturn Rahu
Moon

Lagna 26°20' Mars 173184 Venus 24°18'

Sun 16°55' Mercury 16°25' Saturn 16°01'
Moon 25°39" Jupiter 23°47' Ketu 29°53!

To What Extent To Depend On Computer ?

Both in India and in the USA | have found over-dependence on
computer becoming a serious handicap for astrological concentration.
Unless the habit of mental calculation is done it will never be possible
to see the subtle and finer points in a horoscope. Let me give
instances.
(a) In the USA someone told me the year of his birth and the
degrees of his Moon. | calculated mentally and told him what
dasha he must have been running in 1993 and approximately
what sub-period to explain to him why what had happened to
him happened. Disbelieving me he opened his computer,
calculated and found that | was correct and remarked that |
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faster than the computer. Some easy calculations could be done

mentally. That is a normal practice in India.
(b) In Jaimini rashi dashas more than half of them can always be
done very fast mentally. A computer programme of USA takes
half an hour to calculate Chara dasha with sub-periods while
in India it is being done by our group in less than ten minutes.
(c) The worst handicap of the computer is that many vargas
together with two dashas or three dashas as has been
programmed in the USA cannot be seen on the screen of the
computer. |take a print out of this programme, which ofcourse
is the greatest facility a computer offers, and paste it on my
standard note-book. With two full pages open before me | am
able to run my eyes vertically and horizontally to synthesize
various factors. Indian astrology is the most developed
astrological system of the world as it had to be because
astrology originated in India.
(d) Once! wanted to see Jaimini aspects of three planets from three
different houses on ten horoscopes. | had to open the computer
and see them one by one on the screen and it took me more
two and a half hourto do it. |then decided to open my different
note books and keep the relevant data before me. My scrutiny
was over in half an hour.
Those who think that computer can do all this are encouraging
a superstition which is dangerous to scientific approach tomass of
data required to be displayed simultaneously before one’s eyes.
There cannot be a no substitute for notebooks with horoscopes
properly noted down. Different note books can be taken out and
simultaneously spread on the floor for a sound research.
Till technology comes out with an overhead projector which can
display on a full size wall ten horoscopes, it will never be possible
to do a research of this type. Even if it were displayed on a full
size wall imagine the strain on the eye in seeing all of them.
Those who want to do astrology seriously must have series of
notebooks with horoscopes written down in them or pasted properly.
One of the difficulties of teaching astrology in the four trips |
have undertaken till June 1995 has been that the participants
neither do mental calculations nor can simultaneously interconnect
one horoscope with the second, the second with the third, the third
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with the fourth and then switch back to the second, jump to the
third, come back to the first. | can do it very easily with the students
in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan.
In the exercises | am now going to present in the illustrations
of the Mandooka Dasha such mental exercises can be done very
easily because readers will have to turn over pages backward or
forward, which is what a computer will do in much longer time.
Then if | refer to four horoscopes simultaneously no computer can
display them all at one time.
Therefore keep a note book in which you can write down
horoscopes with your observations and remarks. Keep them in the
computer’s memory also. But more important is to keep them in
your own memory so that while walking, lying or relaxing in any
other way you can meditate on a horoscope without seeing it with
your naked eyes.
If you take a big white sheet of paper, draw on it ten horoscopes
and see it you will understand what |am pointing out. No computer,
however big its screen can do this for you.
An intelligent astrologer must know when the computer is a
facility and when a very crippling liability.
Some of America’s astrology software programmes are
atrociously bad. May be the programme was planned by those who
know very little astrology. In one case they showed a planet in
Sagittarius in the birth horoscope, in Taurus in the chaturthamsa.
Another programme takes half an hour to calculate the Chara dasha
for only twenty years.
We face the same problem in India where different computers
give different methods of astakvarga or Jaimini’s padas.

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6
Dasha Periods

Those who have read my book, Predicting through

Jaimini’s Chara Dasha should read that for the method of counting
dasha periods but here the difference in approach should not cause
any confusion. In Jaimini one must get used to the different methods
of counting dasha periods: Practice makes it a mental discipline yet
one keeps committing mistakes. Often | miscalculate the dasha
periods when the method of another Jaimini’s dashas creeps into my
calculations. To avoid that |am first giving the calculation of Mandook
Dasha as it should be done, then showing the difference with the
Chara Dasha.
Steps To Be Followed
(a) First mark out the dasha order as you must also do in the case
of Chara Dasha.
(b) Now mark out odd rashis and even rashis distinctly.
Divide them in two clear groups thus:

Odd Even
(Direct Counting) (Indirect Counting)
Aries % Taurus
Gemini Cancer
Leo Virgo
Libra Scorpio
Sagittarius Capricorn
Aquarius Pisces

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(c) Count from the rashi concerned to its lord where its lord is
placed, direct in the odd rashis and indirect in the case of even
rashis. That will be the dasha period in years.
) There is
is no deduction of one year in Mandook Dasha.

Note
1. In Chara Dasha there is a standard deductionof one year in
all cases except in the case of planets in their own
rashis, other than Scorpio and Aquarius. Here there is no
deduction.
2. Aplanetin its own sign or in the 12th house will give 12 years.
There is no dasha period of one year in this scheme. It creates
an odd situation to which | have no answer. You will have two
rashis giving you periods of twelve years each. For example-
if Mars is in Aries it will give full twelve years to Aries and if
Mars is in Pisces it will give full twelve years also for the dasha
period of Aries.
/ may be committing some mistake here. If that mistake is
discovered | will change the method. Till then follow this
method.
3. Reverse the situation and do such counting for Scorpio. Here
only the position of Mars is to be counted and Ketu ignored
totally. That is again another difference from Chara Dasha.
Here the counting will be eight years for Mars in Aries nine years
for Mars in Pisces.
(e) Special Rule: \f the lord of a house in the seventh house take
Ten Years.
The Difference with the Chara Dasha
Chara Dasha Mandook Dasha
1. Deduction : Deduct one year Do not make any
except when a planet is in its such deduction here.
own house except in the case
of Scorpio and Aquarius
where special rules apply.
2. When the lord of a house When the lord of a
in the seventh house deduct house is in the seventh
one year. house take full ten years.
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EXAMPLES

MESHA
Horoscopes will be discussed under each lagna, Mesha, Vrisha etc,
covering all the twelve signs.

Feb. 6, 1962
11:15 a.m.
Lat: 20 N 30
Long: 85 E 50

lagna |23°43" Marrs 10°18' Venus 26°01'

Sun 23°27" Mercury (R) =22°02' Saturn 10°39!
Moon 10°40' Jupiter 25°36' Rahu 24°46!

“AK Venus PK Moon Upapada_ Vrischik

AmK — Jupiter GK Saturn Darapada Mesha
BK Sun DK Mars Padalagna = Tula
MK — Mercury KL Simha

Abbreviations
The abbreviations being used are: KL for Karakamsha lagna, DKN
for the navamsha of the darakaraka, UP for Upapada, PL for Pada
lagna and 7P for the pada of the 7th house.
This horoscope confused many astrologers who did not know how
to make predictions with seven planets in one house and only the
Moon in Aquarius. They tried the Vimshottari dasha and failed. Since
most of the astrologers do not know how to handle the Vimshottari
dasha also properly, they could not figure out anything out of this
horoscope. The worst was not knowing Jaimini they had no way of
wriggling out of the situation.

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This baffling example is being given because such horoscopes

‘put astrologers on a crucial test. It will show the need to emphasize
the importance of learning other techniques.

Calculation of Mandook Dasha

Mesha 1962 to 1972 full ten years as the lord, Mars is in the
tenth house and counting is direct.

Karka 1972 to 1978 as the lord is in the sixth house because the
counting is indirect.

Tula 1978 to 1982 the lord of the house, Venus is four houses
away and it being a direct group four years
are fo be given.
The corresponding Vimshottari dasha period was Jupiter-Mercury
in which by no principles can any reading be given that he would
begin to earn in this period.

Sub-Periods of Tula
The dasha order is direct and therefore all sub-periods will also be
direct. Here ignore whether a rashi is odd or even.
Therefore calculate the sub-periods of Tula thus:
First the Chara Group of sub-periods of four months each since
the major dasha is of four years only.

The Chara Group sub-periods

Tula from February 1978 to June 1978
Makar upto October 1978
Mesha upto February 1979
Karka upto June 1979

The Sthira Group of sub-periods

Vrischika upto October 1979
Kumbha upto February 1980
Vrisha upto June 1980
Simha upto October 1980

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The Dwiswabhava Group

Dhanu from October 1980 to February 1981

Employment When ?
| workéd out the dashas. As soon as | reached Tula dasha | found
all-the seven planets aspecting the 11th house of income from Tula.
| asked him if in the 1978-82 period he had income. He told me
that he was selected for the Indian Air Force.
Then | asked him to wait and calculated the sub-periods. |asked
him whether this was from or after October 1980 when we have
all the seven planets in the second house giving money. It being the
period of Sagittarius it had to take him to aerial heights since he was
in the Air Force.
He confirmed it by saying that he had joined the Indian Air Force
on October 10, 1980.

Marriage and Children When ?

The next dasha was of Makar whose sub-periods will have to be
calculated in indirect way because it is an even rashi. The calculations
are:

Makar Period of full 12 years will have one year sub-periods.

The Chara Group

Makar 1982-83 February.
Mesha 1983-84 February.
Karka 1984-85 February (from here darakaraka is in the 7th house.
Tula major period is the 7th house of marriage.
Tula 1985-86 February. Here all the planets are aspecting the
11th house and he had his first child (October 16, 1985)

The Sthtira Group

Kumbha 1985-86 February Putrakaraka the Moon is in Kumbha. He
had another child.

Special Note
In Chara Dasha all these events took place in the dasha of Mithuna
which makes the picture very confusing because all the planets fall

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Sun 16°55' Mercury 16°25' Saturn 16°01'
Moon 25°37 Jupiter 23°47' Rahu 29°53'

in the 8th house. In Vimshottari all the planets being in the 10th house,
except the Moon and Rahu, judgement is difficult. /tis for this reason
that both Parashara and Jaimini had specific dashas for specific types
of horoscopes. Such was their genius.
Now the examples are given, one for each lagna to show
how easy itis to give predictions on the basis of the Mandook Dasha.

VRISHA
Remember now you come to an even rashi.
Here the dasha will start from the 7th house.
Mark these twelve in all horoscopes

AK Moon PK Sun — Padalagna Vrischika

AMK — Venus GK Mercury (E39 Vrischika
BK Jupiter DK Saturn DKN = Kumbha
MK Mars KL Vrischika. =:UP. Mithuna
Dasha Calculation
Start from the seventh house since it is an even lagna.

Vrischika_ 1954 to 1966 The lord of the house is in his house own
ad house. In Mandook Dasha ignore Ketu’s dual ownership
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Female
November4,
1951

Moon |Mercury| Sun Venus

Saturn

Lagna bar ai Mars 25°21' Venus 1°48!

Sun 16°55' Mercury 1°28' Saturn 16°37"
Moon 26°09" Jupiter R) 12°14' Rahu 13°18

of Vrischika and Rahu’s joint ownership of Kumbha for

the purpose of dasha calculation.
Simha 1966 to 1976 note that thelord of the house is in the 7th
10 house and so 10 years have been given, not six years as
would be done in Chara Dasha. | had got stuck in this
area. Once | saw the calculation of Vemuri Rammurthi
Shastri, then | rectified the mistake and got my timing
correctly.

Vrisha 1976 to 1980. Counting is indirect here.

Amatyakaraka Venus with the Sun gave her a big government job
in the dasha of Kumbha. She was selected through the all India
competetive examination for the Indian Revenue Service.

MITHUNA
(Odd Rashi)

AK Moon PK Jupiter PL Mesha

AmK Mars GK Venus 7P Mithuna
BK Sun DK Mercury DKN Karka
MK Saturn KL Vrischika UP Makara

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Calculation of Mandok Dasha
Major Periods in the Sub-Periods of Dhanu
Mandook Dasha (1968 to 1972)
Mithuna 1951 to 1957 Dhanu from Nov. 1968
Kanya 1957 to 1968 Meena from March 1969
Dhanu =:1968 to 1972 Mithna from July 1969
Meena 1972 to 1984 Kanya from Nov. 1969
Karka 1984 to 1992 Makara from March 1970
Mesha
from July 1970
Karka
from Nov. 1970
from March 1971
Tula
Kumbha
from July 1971
Vrisha from Nov. 1972
Simha from March 1972
Vrischika from July 1972
ends on.Nov. 1972
She was married in October 1972 in the major period of Dhanu
which is the 7th house of the horoscope.

The marriage took place in the sub-period of Vrischik which

contains the darakaraka, Mercury.

Analysis of Marital Life

Many parameters should be applied first in the birth horoscope and
then other, manifold ones, can be brought into use.
1. Here the the 7th lord, Jupiter is under the Parashari aspects
of Saturn and Mars. Being retrograde, such a 7th lord does
not give its promised good results.
2. From the birth lagna the darakaraka is in the 6th house and
in the 12th house from the Atmakaraka.
3. From the Upapada, Makar the 2nd house has Rahu aspected
by the Sun.
4. Inthe navamsha the position is better with the Atmakaraka and
the navamsha of darakaraka being in trines, aspecting each
other mutually. But Ketu with the darakaraka aspected by Saturn
is not a happy situation.

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5. Inthe period of Meena which contains the putrakaraka, Jupiter

she had three children.
In the dasha of Karka 1984 to 1992 she came to me to
seek some astrological marital counselling. Karka contains
the navamsha of the darakaraka and is the 7th house from upapada
aspected by Rahu. The upapada is aspected by Mars and Ketu.
The next dasha of Tula (a long twelve year period from 1992
to 2004) had Rahu Ketu, Mars and Mercury aspecting the 7th house,
Aries. 4
According to Parashari aspect But the 7th lord of the lagna, Jupiter
aspected by Saturn and Mars becomes, | said, “separate but not
divorced”.
“Yes. Have been away from him since 1989. Do not want to
divorce.”

j
Moon
fLa:
>
Sun
Female Mars
, 1970|Mercury] ,
Ketu
Venus

fein |
Lagna m 4°28' = Mars 15°23! Venus 28°8'
Sun 14°53" Mercury 7°27' Saturn ia
Moon 1°18 Jupiter 4°46) Rahu 9°26'

What Mantra
Next time when she came she asked me to prescribe a mantra.
From the Karakamsha (Vrischika) there is the Sun in the 12th
house.
From the navamsha of the Amatyakaraka Mars, Ketu and Rahu
aspect the 6th house.
Both indicated a mantra of Lord Shiva and Lord Kartikeya, the
son of Lord Shiva.
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She did it for some months and came and told me that her
husband had agreed to meet the entire cost of education of the
children, which was an enormous amount but not live with her. She
too never wanted to live with him. In Vimshottari it was the period
of Rahu and Moon. As the second lord, the Moon in the 7th house
had to give her money from her husband.

Karka
(Even Lagna)

Mark these twelve in all horoscopes

AK Saturn PK Mercury PL Karka

AmK — Venus GK Jupiter 7P Karka
BK Mars DK Moon UP Tula
MK Sun KL Dhanu_ DKN Karka

Calculation of the Mandook Dasha

Makar 1970 to 1980
! Tula 1980 to 1991
\2Karka 1991 fo 2003

Her highly well placed elder sister showed me the horoscope and
asked me whether her younger sister with no worthy educational
qualificatios would get married at all.
The question was put on May 21, 1992.

Analysis of the horoscope

1. The 7th lord Saturn receiving the aspect of Jupiter and Saturn
himself aspecting it, promised marriage.
2. She would marry into a prosperous family and bring considerable
luck to her husband.
3. Upapada in Tula associated with Jupiter and aspected by two
benefics, Venus and Mercury and Ketu promised domestic
comforts increasing after her marriage. Again there was no
denial.
4. The 7th house from Upapada had Saturn aspected by Rahu
but also by Venus and Mercury.
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Lagna 29°25" Mars (R) 25°23) Venus O57

Sun 16°42' Mercury 13°22' Saturn 11°08'
Moon 29°22! Jupiter 3°16! Rahu 20°58'
AK Moon PK Saturn PL Mithuna
AmK — Mars GK Venus 7P Simha
BK Sun (note it) DK Jupiter DKN Karka
MK Mercury KL Meena Pies Meena

5. Darakaraka was afflicted no doubt. But both the Sun and Mars
are the friends of the Moon, the darakaraka.
6. Prepare the navamsha and see the darakaraka aspected again
by three friends, the Sun, Mars and Jupiter.
7. The padalagna, the pada of the 7th house and the darakaraka
and the navamsha of the darakaraka all fell into one house.
The dasha now begun was of Karka where all these three were
present.
After Karka-Karka 1991-92 will come Karka-Mesha which was
7th from the Upapada and Jupiter. The marriage would be performed
happily.
She was married into a prosperous family in February 1993.

SIMHA
The fact of interconnected destinies | always stress becomes clearly
visible here. First see the Mandook Dasha calculation.
Simha 1971 to 1983
Vrischika 1983 to 1994

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Sub Periods in Vrischika

“—Wrischika—s«wupto
July 1984. ——~=<“‘C:*#
Kumbha upto June 1985
Vrisha upto May 1986
Simha upto April 1987
Dhanu upto March 1988
Meena upto February 1989
Mithuna upto January 1990
Kanya upto December 1990
Makara upto November 1991
Mesha upto October 1992
Karka upto September 1993
Tula upto August 1994

An Army Officer
March 14, 1937
Lat: 32 N56
Long: 74E 31

Lagna 22°22! 7°30' Venus 5°50'

Sun 0°04' Mercury 20°50' Saturn 2°04'
Moon 24°39' 28°50' Rahu 26°30!

1. Notice the afflicted 9th house from Vrischika with the Sun who is
also the bhatrikaraka, becoming father doubly, first as a natural
significator then as Jaimini’s karaka for father.
2. Notice the conjunction of Ketu and the gnathikaraka, Venus with
the Sun.
3. Notice the aspect of Saturn on all these from Vrisha.
4. InVrischika dasha his father was suspended from service in avery
big job.
5. But there is the protective aspect of Jupiter also falling on this
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combination. So | predicted that he would be reinstated and

promoted. But when?
6. The answer was Gfter September 1993 and before August
1994 when the Tula sub-period would run. Why 2
7. From Tula the bhatrikaraka, the Sun now goes into the 10th
house receiving the aspect of Jupiter.
His father was reinstated in April 1994 and also promoted.

KANYA
(Even Lagna)
Mark these twelve in all horoscopes

AK Jupiter PK Venus Pada (?)

AmK — Moon GK Saturn EP (2)
BK Mercury DK Sun DKN Karka
MK Mars KL Dhanu UP (2)
Fix tentatively Kanya lagna because the incidents he gave are
as follows:

Lagna Mars 1°38' Venus 26°21'

Sun 10°59' Mercury 27°50' Saturn 7) ~=21°01'
Moon 12°40' Jupiter (@) 21°48' Rahu LASS 7’

AK — Mercury PK Moon PL Mesha

AmK — Venus GK Sun 7P Kumbha
BK Jupiter DK Mars UP Kanya
MK Saturn KL Kanya DKN Makara

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1. Selected for the Defence Services in 1956

Was married in April 1961.
Had a son in August 1962.
Had another son in September 1963.
His father died in 1976.
Was promoted as a brigadier in 1980.
a
i
SP Was given Keerti Chakra (an honour for army officers) in April
1982.
8. Became a Major General in January 1988.
Assuming Kanya to be the lagna test these events through the
Mandook Dasha.

TULA
(Odd Lagna)
She had a crucial question to ask about her husband in 1991.
Her birth time was between 9 and 9-30 A.M. | calculated that
the lagna should be Tula but being uncertain about birth time |decided
that | could work with Jaimini’s dashas since the Karakas were not
getting though the degrees of the Lagna would be different for
different time.
How easily a lagna could be verified in such cases will be evident
if it is seen that.if some major events could be tested one could be
certain about the lagna. After that one could verify the birth time.

Dasha Calculation
Chara Group Sthira Group

Tula 1940to 1950 Vrischika 1978 to 1981

Makar 1950to 1960 Kumbha 1981 to 1984
Mesha 1960 to 1966 Vrisha 1984 to 1995
Karka 196610 1978

Verification of Events
1. She gave her date of marriage as October 16, 1965
It is Mesha Dasha, the 7th house of marriage. At the rate of
six months each you reach Dhanu and Meena from September
1965 to September 1966. From Dhanu the 7th house has the

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Lagna 21°40! Mars 21°44 Venus 6°8'

Sun 19°29' Mercury 10°09' Saturn (7, ~=—.00°39'
Moon 2°38! Jupiter 23°49 Ketu 25°37'

aspect of the darakaraka, Mars and from Meena the

darakaraka is in the 7th house.
2. Her first child was born in October 1967.
It is the period of Karka which contains her putrakaraka. It is
a full twelve year period. She conceived in 1966-67 in Karka-
Karka.
3. Her second child was born in August 1970.
It was Karka-Mesha. The 11th house from Mesha receives the
aspect of the putrakaraka, the Moon.
4. Her husband was kidnapped on October 9, 1991.
It was Vrisha (the 8th from the lagna) and Meena period.

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From Meena the darakaraka, Mars is with two malefics in the

7th house. Kidnapping well explained.

VRISCHIKA
(Even Lagna)

AK Jupiter PK Venus PL Karka

AmK — Mars GK Moon 7P Kanya
BK Sun DK Saturn DKN Makar
MK — Mercury KL Simha UP Mesha

Calculation of Mandook Dasha

Vrisha 1941 to 1946
Kumbha 1946 to 1950
Vrischika 1950 to 1959
Simha 1959 to 1963
Mesha 1963 to 1975
Makara 1975 to 1984
Tula 1984 to 1988
Karka 1988 to 1990
Meena 1990 to 2001

Female
Dec. 26, 1930
06:39 a.m.
Approximate
Lat: 22N35
Long: 88E23

Lagna 10°02' Mars (R) 23°33' Venus 2 1'

Sun 10°38' Mercury 29°03' Saturn 20°07'
Moon Jupiter (a) 24°08' Rahu af 33
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He came to ask me whether he would at all get the promotion

he had been denied. It was 1991 or 1992. | said he was knocking
at the door. He was promoted in August 1993.

Puzzles
Instead of solving, let me leave it to the readers to work on this
horoscope themselves after veryfying the following events.
1. Studied physics, chemistry and mathematics.
2. He joined an airlines in 1961. Two questions are to be seen
simultaneously, why he did he get a job so early and why in
the airlines 2
3. In 1967-68 his marriage was fixed and performed.
> He had four children in ten years after his marriage.
5. From 1989-90 his promotions were blocked but he got it in
August 1993.

DHANU
(Odd Lagna)
AK Mercury PK Moon PL Dhanu
AmK Jupiter GK Sun 7P Mithuna
BK Mars DK Venus DKN Karka
MK Saturn KL Dhanu UP Meena

Mandook Dasha (Odd)

Dwiswabhava Group Chara Group Sthira Group
Dhanu 1930 to 1940 Makara 1970 to 1972 Kumbha 1984 to 1995
Meena 1940 to 1950 Mesha 1972 to 1976
Mithuna 1950 to 1960 Karka 1976 to 1982
Kanya 1960 to 1970 Tula 1982 to 1984

Relevant Sub Periods

Meena Mithuna Kumbha
(Dec. 1940 to Dec. 1950) (Dec. 1950 to Dec.1960 (Dec. 1984 to Dec. 1995)
Meena upto Oct. 1941 Mithuna upto Oct.1951 Kumbha upto Nov. 1985
Mithuna to Aug 1942 Kanya upto Aug. 1952 Vrisha upto Oct.1986
Kanya to June 1943 Dhanu upto Jun 1953 Simha upto Sep. 1987
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Dhanu to Apr 1944 Meena upto Apr 1954 Vrisch. upto Aug. 1988
Karka upto Feb 1955 Meena upto July 1989
Mithuna upto June 1990
Kanya upto May 1991
Dhanu upto April 1992
| had known her for 47 years. | could have traced many events
of her life through the Mandook Dasha. But! am tracing only some
events to show how validly this dasha works.

Her father was eminent Hindi journalist, a great Sanskrit scholar

with good knowledge of astrology. He had prepared the horoscope
of all his children. Sixty years later that note-book in which he had
prepared all the horoscope was traced. Some details had faded out
and’the papers were torn at many places. Dhanu lagna with the
planetary position was clear. The ishta ghati in which the birth time
was recorded in the traditional Hindu way was almost indecipherable.
Itlooked like 59 ghatis and 35 palas. | decided to adopt approximate
Vimshottari Dasha balance and concentrate more on Jaimini dashas
in which if Karakas’ accuracy is not affected, one can proceed to
give correct predictions.
1. Her mother died in 1943 in the major period of Meena and
the sub-period of Dhanu which contains the Matrikaraka,
Saturn. As it is the heavily afflicted 4th house and the afflicted
by retrograde Mars and also retrograde Saturn had to prove
bad for her mother who died in the Vimshottari dasha of the
Ath lord Jupiter and perhaps the sub-period of Venus.
2. Her father died in 1968 in the perio of Kanya and the sub-
period of Karka which contains her Bhatrikaraka, Mars.
3. She was married in the dasha of Mithuna which is the 7th house
from her birth horoscope and contains the pada of the 7th.
It was in 1954 when the sub-period of Karka was running that
her marriage was finalised. Karka contains the navamsha of
the darakaraka.
4. Her married life was disastrous. She was childless. She had very
fine literary skill and artistic expression. From Karakamsha both
her 5th house and the 5th lord receive the aspects of the Moon
and Venus.

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Jupiter noon| |
Rahu
Sun Mer
Male Aah 10
January 25,
1953

Saturn

Lagna 18°30! Mars 20°06' Venus 28°18

Sun a ies ft Mercury 5°30! Saturn 3°59)
Moon 16°20' Jupiter 18°26' Rahu TORS!

In the period of Tula the afflicted 3rd house gave her acute
arthritis which almost immobilised her. Yet she dragged herself to my
house sometimes. Her scholarly analysis of India’s social problems
were scintillating.
The middle part of her Kumbha period in Jaimini’s Mandook
dasha coincided with the Vimshottari dasha of Ketu aspected by
Saturn, the killing second lord. The Moon in Kumbha is aspected by
Mars who would qualify to be Brahma.
In Chara Dasha it was the period of Meena aspected by so many
planets including a heavily afflicted and retrograde Atmakaraka,
Mercury.
| knew that she would not live long. She had suffered cheerfully
the fate of a deserted orthodox Hindu wife who could not seek the
protection of either the society or the law of the land. Her noble
brother could have moved the high and mighty of the land to get
justice for her daughter. But as a wise man he told her, perhaps, that
if this was done, the unexpired Karma would manifest in some other
form of suffering.
Her nobles brothers and their wives did their very best for her.
In 1991 when | was asked what | had seen in her horoscope | told
her brothers and their wives to be prepared for the worst. Brave lady,
she was. Even in her dying moments she was in literary moods. She
died in the middle of 1992 when her sadhe-sati had prepared her
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Rahu
Sun Lagna
Jupiter Moon a
Mercury

A Young Boy
March 28, 1987

Lagna 10°40! Mars 0°13' Venus RCM

Sun 13°06 Mercury 15°22' Saturn 27°29
Moon 23°20 Jupiter 12°26' Rahu 17°49'

to reconcile to her death. It was also the 5th dasha in the Vimshottari.

MAKAR
(Even Lagna)
AK Venus PK Sun PL Karka
AmK — Mars GK Mercury 7P Meena
BK Jupiter DK Saturn DKN _ Vrischika
MK Moon KL Mithuna UP Simha

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Calculation of Mandook Dasha

Chara Group Dwiswabhava Group

Karka 1953 to 1956 Mithuna 1976 to 1984

Mesha1956 to 1967
Makar 1967 to 1971
Tula 1971 to 1976
The events given are married on June 28, 1982
A son was born on March 31, 1983.
Another son was born on February 28, 1985.
He has studied languages.
aRwna
He is a government servant which job he must have got, let
it be presumed, between the ages of 21 and 25 years.
He never met me and took no prediction. This horoscope should
be verified in various ways.

KUMBHA
(Odd Lagna)

AK Saturn PK Jupiter PL Simha

AmK —=Moon GK Venus 7P Tula
BK = Mercury DK Mars DKN Makar
MK Sun KL Meena UP Kanya

Calculation of the Mandook Dasha

Kumbha 1987 to 1997

Sub periods of Kumbha

Sthira Group
Kumbha March 1987 to January 1988
Vrisha upto November 1988
Simha upto September 1989
Vrischika upto July 1990
Dwiswabhava Group
Meena upto May 1991
Mithuna upto. March 1992

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In the Vimshottari dasha he was running Jupiter-Ketu in August 1991.

In the Chara Dasha he was running Kumbha-Karka till October
Jlee I
The horoscope of the boy was given in August 1991 and was
told that he had gone with his parents to Kathmandu in a bus and
after that what happened was not known. The boy was sent to his
home in Delhi.

Analysis

Vimshottari Dasha
Look at the Vimshottari dasha. It is the dasha of Jupiter the second
lord in the second totally combust. The sub-period is that of Ketu in
the eighth house.
1. Jupiter is also in the second house from Venus the 4th and the
9th lord, representing both parents. He is second from the
Moon representing the mother. .
2. Ketu is in the 8th house from the lagna, the Moon. But he is
in the 7th from the mahadasha lord and in the 8th house from
the lagna: Remember the simple Parashara principle of the
mutual positions of the mahadasha and the antardasha lords
for interpretation.
3. Mars in the 4th house aspected by Saturn. Mars, as the 3rd
lord is the longevity of parents.
4. Mars is in the 4th house from the Moon and the 3rd house
from the Sun, the father.
A terrible accident must have taken place in which somethig fatal
could have happened to the parents.

Chara Dasha
It was the Kumbha period which is always good for charities,
pilgrimages and holy deeds. Kumbha has Bhatrikaraka, representing
the father with the Gnathikaraka, the lord of accidents as discussed
in my book, “Predicting Through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha”. There is
also the Moon, representing the mother.
From Karka they fall into the 8th house of the worst tragedy.

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The sub-period was of Karka. The bus might have fallen into
water which is not an unknown occurence in the Himalayan in India.

Mandook Dasha
It was the dasha of Kumbha. What has been said about the Chara
Dasha applies here too.
But the sub-period is that of Mithuna which is 8th from the
Atmakaraka, Saturn. The fatality is clear.
From here the 8th house receives the aspects of both Saturn and
Mars.
Affliction to the 9th house where Gnathikaraka is present with
the Moon is a clear explanation for the death of both parents.
Then | did other techniques and said that the parents must have
met the worst of accidents. They may not be surviving. It was in August
1991. The boy has been sent home. The concerned state government
has not yet announced to the other passengers in that bus. They have
not been declared dead yet. (August 1995)
Note : Predictions about the death of anyone should notbemade
unless it is cross-checked through other dashas and preferably
through ashtakavarga. Among Jaimini’s dashas there are enough
indications about such events. But as PS. Sastri says in his book, “....
all this clearly shows how difficult it is to apply Jaimini’s principles
ifone is not taught by a competent teacher who has imbibed this oral
tradition.” (p. 171)

Who Represents Which Parents?

We see in the dasha of Kumbha both the Venus and the
Moon in it. It is significant to know who represents which parents.

According to Jaimini:
(a) The stronger between the Sun and Venus represents the father.
(b) The stronger between the Moon and Mars represents the
mother.
The strength has to be decided according to a method given by
Jaimini in which the actual strength of a planet and a rashi can be
quantified. | have taught it to successive batches of students.
Even without that we could apply another principle of Varahamihira:

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princely family
August 25,
1930

Lagna 27°05' Mars 5°14' Venus 24°6'

Sun 8°42' Mercury eles Saturn (R) 12°34!
Moon 29°57' Jupiter 19°47' Rahu 3°27!

If the birth is during daytime, the Sun represents the father. If

at night, Saturn (some say the Moon as does PS. Sastry does in his
book (p.170).
In the case of the mother Varahamihira says that in a day birth
Venus represents the mother and in a night birth it is the Moon (some
say Saturn).

Resolving the controversy

| have a workable solution for this problem in Jaimini astrology.
(a) Take the Bhatrikaraka and the Sun for father.
(b) Take the Matrikaraka and the Moon for the mother.
(c)_ Keep the mind open and see the roles of Saturn and Mars also.
(d) Finally see the affliction to these. In the scheme of such affli-
ction Rahu always has a crucial role is what |have found. Next
to Rahu the role of the Gnathikaraka cannot be overlooked.
In the present case, it is night birth and one may proceed to apply
the principles of Varahamihira. But in Jaimini let us follow the
principles laid down by him.
Here the Bhatrikaraka, Mercury is with the Gnathikaraka in the
lagna whose rashi dasha was running both in the Mandook and Chara
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Gnathikaraka. Here the Moon is stronger being with more planets

and higher degrees than Mars.
The Sun in this horoscope is the natural significator of father but
as a Jaimini karaka is the mother being the matrikaraka. The affliction
of Rahu is there.
The rashi dasha was to prove fatal for parents in both the Chara
and Mandook dashas. Which sub-period is also not controversial here
as in Chara dasha both were in the 8th from the Karka sub-period.
In the Mandook Dasha was the sub-period of Mithuna, a trinal house
which is again according to the princples of Jaimini.

Meena
(Even Lagna)

AK Moo PK Sun PL Kanya

AmK = Venus GK Mercury 7P Kanya
BK Jupiter DK Mars DKN Vrischika
MK Saturn KL Dhanu UP Tula

Calculation of the Mandook Dasha

Dwiswabhava Group Sthira Group

Kanya 1932 to 1942 Simha 1966 fo 1978

Mithuna 1942 to 1946 ~~ Vrisha 1978 to 1987
Meena 1946 to 1956 Kumbha 1987 to 1998
Dhanu 1956 to 1966

Events
1. June 2nd 1949 married in the dasha of Meena which is 7th
from the pada of the seventh and is along one-seven axis.
Between 1950 and 1956 had two sons in the same dasha.
His father died in November 1972.
His elder brother was shot dead in March 1982.
His mother died in December 1984.
ona
wN Was an important political personality, he died in early nineties.
“ttyboth Jaimini’s Chara and Mandook dashas and trace out these
events.

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\GECTION IIT

Enlarged Portraits
1. CHARAN SINGH
(ex-prime minister of India)
(December 1902-May 1987)

2. RAJIV GANDHI
(ex-prime minister of India)
(August 1944 to May 1991)

3. K.N. Rao
(October 12, 1931)
(Alive at the time of writing)

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Enlarged Portraits

CHARAN SINGH
(ex-prime minister of India)
(December 1902-May 1987)

It should be remembered that all rashi dashas of Jaimini are meant

to have a quick and clear view of the trends of events and tendencies
of a particular dasha. To make predictions one will have to work in
greater details always. How the Mandook Dasha gives such a quick
view from the bare horoscope, the karakas and the calculated dashas
is what is being shown by looking at some horoscopes of well known
personalities whose life events are well known to us.
The first horoscope being taken up is that of Charan Singh who
was the Indian Prime Minister for only six months between July and
December 1979 in most unusual circumstances.
| had given him two major predictions in 1978. In 1979 when
he was the prime minister he gave me some personal details of his
life which can be tested through the MD.
He did not know his birth details. It was first discovered through
a Bhrigu Samhita and later Hardeo Sharma Trivedi corrected it and
gave him the birth time which is being used here. There are two
differences in the horoscope used by me in 1979 and this one. The
first is that Rahu is in Libra and the second, the degrees of the lagna
are 14-32. As has been stressed already, in Jaimini one can manage
with wrong degrees of lagna if the lagna is not wrong. But the karakas
should not be affected in any case.
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First see the horoscope:

Saturn/ |g
fe]
19 Mer

Dec. 23, 1902

07:23 a.m.
Near Meerut

Lagna 14°32' Mars 08°48' Venus 13°37"

Sun 07°49' Mercury 13°49 Saturn 04°06'
Moon 22°43' Jupiter 23°59 Ketu 00°23'

AK Jupiter PK MarsPada lagna Kumbha Kumbha

AmK = Moon GK Sun 7P ~~ Mithuna
BK Mercury DK ~~ Saturn DKN Kumbha
MK Venus KL Simha UP Karaka

Calculation of Mandook Dasha

Dwiswabhava Group Sthira Group

Dhanu 1902 to 1904 Kumi to

Meena = 1904 to 1907 Vrisha 1971 to 1977
Mithuna 1907 to 1917 Simha 1977 to 1982
Kanya 1917 to 1927 Vrischika 1982 to 1985 -

Chara Group Second Cycle* (Dwi. Group)

Makar 1927 to 1939 Dhanu 1985 to 1987

Mesha 1939 to 1945 Meena 1986 to 1989
Karka 1945 to 1956 *End of a cyle is not indicative
Tula 1956 to 1959 of the end of life span.

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DKN

Pada UP
Karakas
AK
DK kL

PLagna ‘ PK
Rahu
BK MK AmK
GK

Mars | Kety Sun

PK GK

Saturn Moon
DK AMK
Navamsha
JupAK
Mer BK
Ven MK:

Rahu

Rajayogas of Jaimini
The rajayogas of Jaimini present in the horoscope are in the 10th
house from the lagna where PK and Amk form an excellent
combination because these are aspected by Venus. The Moon-Venus
aspect on the 10th house was the reason for his rise in life.
The combination of the the atmakaraka, Jupiter with the
darakaraka, Saturn in the second is again a classical Jaimini rajayoga.
In the navamsha the only rajayoga which survives is the aspectof
the amatyakaraka on the darakaraka. What must be noticed here is
that in the navamsha the aspect of the amatyakaraka on the 10th
house from theKarakamsha in Leo. More important is the association
with the karakamsha in Leo of Mercury and Venus both benefics,
Venus also being the governmental power in the royal sign of Leo.
Here | am not making use of the other lagnas of Jaimini to test it
further.
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Mercury and Venus so close to the lagna, continue to be in the

navamsha lagna and also drekkana which is a less discussed but a
well known Jaimini rajayoga.
It involves the dwiswabhava houses only which explains why he
could never stay long in high posts even when he got them, first as
the chief minister of U.P. twice and later as the Home Minister of India
and the Prime Minister too for a brief spell of six months only.

Events
We can trace some of his life events through the Mandook dasha
which has been given earlier.

Marriage
He was married on June 25th 1925 in the major period of Kanya
from where the darakaraka is in the 5th house while the putrakaraka
is in Kanya itself.
The sub-period was of Kumbha which has in it the navamsha
of the darakaraka.

Children
His first daughter was born on September 14, 1927 in the dasha
of Kanya which has his putrakaraka in it and the sub-period of Simha
from where the putrakaraka is aspecting the Sth house from where
the Putrakaraka is aspecting his fifth house.
The only surviving son was born May 21, 1936 in the dasha
of Makar from where the putrakaraka is in the 9th house. The sub-
periods were of Vrischika from where the putrakaraka aspects 5th
house and later when the son was born it was the Meena sub period
which is aspected by the putrakaraka.

Education
His education was mainly in the dasha of Kanya,the 10th house
fromthe birth lagna. From Kanya both Jupiter and Saturn in the 5th
gave him a degree in law, though it was politics that sbsorbed him
more later than legal practice.
The karakamsha of the birth horoscope is also aspected by Saturn
and Jupiter confirming his education in law. Jupiter is the 5th lord
from the karakamsha. In the swamsha Jupiter, Mercury and Venus
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gave him interest in the classical and orthodox traditions of the country
and a deep interest in astrology. Like Morarji Desai he was the only
other prime minister who openly said that astrology was a great
science but very few astrologers of outstanding calibre existed in the
world.

Political Career
His political life which began very early brought him his first public
distinction when in 1937 he got elected to the assembly of the what
was then the United Provinces of Agra aur Awadh(now known as Uttar
Pradesh).It was in the dasha of Makar which,as already pointed out,
has the rajayoga in the conjunction of the atkamaraka and the
darakaraka. The sub-period was that of Mithuna from where the 10th
house is aspected by the putrakaraka and the amatyakaraka.
He was never defeated in any elections.
The discussion of his horoscope can be concluded with two dashas
of his, of Simha from 1977 to 1982, and then of the last dasha of
Meena.

Sub-Periods of Simha from 1977 to 1982 (Rise and Fall)

Pul__1o,, Ge epirahen,.. giiweasuplcc 1 CYT Stn lire tre

Vrishchika upto October 1978
Kumbha upto March 1979
Vrisha upto August1979
Kanya upto January 1980
Dhanu upto Junuary 1980
Meena upto | November 1980
Mithuna upto April 1981

In Vrisha-Makar he fought elections and came to central politics.

He was released from the jail where he was lodged during the
emergency of 1975 of the Indira Government. In Makar there is a
rajayoga.
In the Simha period he rose to the highest position of his life and fell
to never arise again. Itis classical Jaimini astrology about theSimha and
Dhanu periods, the periods of fall as is well-known. A fall must be
preceded by a rise. These periods are the periods of rise.
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We can see some of the important sub-periods of this dasha.

But first of all it must be seen that from Simha which is also the
karakamsha,the 10th house receives the aspects of Saturn and
Jupiter, the rajayoga producers and the 11th house receives the
aspects of the Moon and Mars, the other rajayoga producers along
with those of the Sun, Mercury and Venus on the 11th house of
achievement.
He became the Home Minister but had nurtured a grudge against
the other leaders of the Janata Party who had not made him the prime
minister.
He intrigued against his own prime minister and the party or the
coalition of parties which had then formed the government. He had
to be dropped. In happened in the sub-period of Vrishikawhich
represents adverssity from where the rajayoga falls in the 3rd house
of change.
But he had to be taken back into Morarji’s cabinet in the sub-
period of Kumbha from where the 8th house has the brilliant
rajayogas, All this happened in a surprising was which is what the
8th does. The 10th house has the aspects of Saturn and Jupiter giving
him a rajayoga.
In the next sub-period of Vrisha, with the 8th house having the
Sun, Mercury and Venus and receiving the aspects of the
amatyakaraka and the putrakaraka and the 11th house having all
these aspects he became the prime minister for a brief period of six
months. The 8th house being the house of intrigues he came to power
and there is a rajayoga in the 9th house which is also the house of
priministership, along with the 5th house.
He was out of power in the sub-period of Dhanua the rashi of
fall also.

Dhanu Period (1985 to 1987)

Dhanu was is the rashi of sickness also and he died in May 1987
in the Kumbha sub-period from where the atmakaraka is in the 12th
house.

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RAJIV GANDHI c
(ex-prime minister of India)
(August 1944 to May 1991)

Rajiv Gandhi was the third prime minister of India from the same
family of the Nehru-Gandhi lineage which has acquired a royal-
dynasty like status in the history of independent India. It is well known
that his mother, Indira Gandhi, also the prime minister of India had
never thought him to be cut out for politics as he was too gentlemanly
to be a politician unlike his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi who died
an untimely death in June, 1980.

The Astrological Magazine edited by Dr.Raman created good deal

of confusion by insisting from 1984 to 1991 that the lagna of Rajiv
Gandhi was Kanya. Then suddenly the magazine switched over to
Simha lagna in 1991 without any apologies to its readers. In the 1984
horoscope of Rajiv Gandhi based on 9-11 a.m. war-time as the birth
time, Mercury the atmakaraka was shown in Simha. It was based on
the Chitrapaksha ayanamsha or Lahiri’s. Then in 1991 when the
horoscope was discussed on basis of 8-11 a.m. wartime, Mercury
the Atmakaraka was shown in Kanya. The status of Mercury was
reduced drastically from that of the Atmakaraka to the darakaraka.
All such confusion arises when horoscopes are not rectified and no
cross check is done through Jaimini astrology.
The enigma inherent in these two horoscopes was that while at
9-22 a.m. Mercury was shown in Simha in 1984, it was changed
to 8-11 wartime a.m., one hour before in Kanya in 1991.

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Saturn

Rajiv Gandhi
August 20, 1944
07:11:40 a.m.
Ketu | (Corrected War
Time)

Lagna 14°46) Mars 1512: Venus 18°39!

Sun 03°50' Mercury 28°34' Saturn 14°13!
Moon 17°30' Jupiter 12°12' Ketu 4°25'

The birth time of Rajiv Gandhi is 7-11-40 a.m. corrected war

time. The horoscope cast on the basis of the Chitrapaksha ayanamsha
is given.

First see the horoscope:

AK = Mercury PK — Jupiter Padalag Simha

AmK — Venus GK Sun 7P Tula
BK Moon DK Mars DKN Makar
MK Saturn KL Dhanu = =UP__ Kanya

Now see the Karakas forming rajayogas in the royal sign of Simha.

The atmakaraka is with the amatyakaraka.

The atmakaraka is with the putrakaraka.
The amatyakaraka is with the putrakaraka.
Then the Moon and Venus combination is also there.
=
Cute From the karakamsha of the birth horoscope (Dhanv) all this
is in the 9th house of luck and prime ministership.
It is necessary to examine whether the same rajayogas survive
in the navamsha or not. See the Jaimini rajayogas.
Now see in the vargottama navamsha both atmakaraka aid.
amatyakaraka aspecting each other with the Sun in the 10th house
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Navamsha

from the lagna aspected by an exalted Mars. From the Karakamsha

in the navamsha (the swamsha horoscope) amatyakaraka, Venus with
the Moon in the 10th house forms another of Jaimini’s rajayogas.
The Sun, representative of royalty, in the 10th house from the
navamsha lagna is aspected by an exalted Jupiter in the 10th house
while the exalted Mars, representing power of authority too aspects
this Sun.

Sinister Features
But notice some sinister features in the horoscope.
1. The matrikaraka, Saturn is aspected by Mars, the planet of
violence.
2. In his own case both Saturn and Mars aspect the 8th house from
the atmakaraka, Mercury.
3. From the karakamsha, which is Dhanu, another sign of rise and
fall like Simha, both Saturn and Mars aspect all the four kendras
or quadrants including the karakamsha itself.
The story of Rajiv Gandhi's brief political life of eleven years is:
he rose so spectacularly, fell so badly and was killed so violently. It
can be seen in the scheme of the Mandook Dasha.

Calculation of the Mandook Dasha

Sthira Group

Simha 1944 to 1956

Vrischika 1956 to 1959

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Ketu

Kumbha 1959 to 1964

Vrisha 1964 to 1974
(see the dkin the 5th house)
Dwi Group
Kanya 1974 to 1976
Dhanu 1976 to 1985
(the spectacular rise and fall.)
Meena 1985 to 1993
(8th from AK, Sun and Venus)

Events of His Life

We can start with the ten year-Vrisha period when Rajiv Gandhi was
in U.K.doing a technical course which Mars in the 5th aspected by
Saturn confirms. But the planet of technical course, Mars is also in
the 5th house of emotions. He failed in his examination but succeeded
in his love with an Italian girl, the now famous Sonia Gandhi. Mars
the darakaraka won.
His mother, Indira Gandhi was initially not inclined to approve
his marriage was the rumour. But she was on a weak ground. She
herself had defied her family tradition and married a Parsi but an
Indian. If she had hopped out of her family traditions, here was her
son prepared to make an international leap and marry a Roman
Catholic Italian woman.
The rumour then current and not dead even now is that
Rajiv Gandhi got baptised and became Robert Gandhi in the records
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produced no evidence. One such Indian in Houston in USA argued

with me why | had not mentioned it in my book, the Nehru Dynasty.
| told him that | had no evidence with me and even if Rajiv Gandhi
got converted, it made no difference to my admiration for him as
gentleman and criticism for his political immaturity.
But the Mandook dasha of Vrisha was to run for full ten years
and Rajiv had to do the frog jump (Mandook is frog)into his marriage
with the Italian woman he was in love with.
He married her in February, 1968.
lt happened in the sub-period of Mithuna (December 1967 to
October 1968). Both Mithuna and the 7th house from it, Dhanu are
aspected by the darakaraka, Mars.
In the sub-period of Kanya (upto August, 1969) we see the Sth
house, Makara, aspected by all the planets in Simha, including the
putrakaraka and the natural putrakaraka, Jupiter.
His son, Rahul was born in this period.
| do not have any details of birth of Rajiv’s second child, Priyanka.

The Dhanu Period

In my book, Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha,] have discssed
about the Dhanu period. It is a period both of rise and fall. Whose
rise and whose fall has to be analyed properly.
1. In Dhanu-Dhanu (August 1976 to May 1977) his mother, Indira
Gandhi was defeated in elections to earn the historically dubious
distifction of becoming the first ever living ex-prime minister.
See Saturn, the matrikaraka in Mithuna aspecting the 10th
house from Dhanu which is Kanya with Mars in it. The mutual
aspects of Saturn and Mars on the kendras had to prove bad.
2. In the Dhanu-Makar period (August 1979 to May 1980) his
mother, (now the matrikaraka in the 6th house is in a fighting
mood) came back to power through her adroit political
intrigues.
Note: To predict only fall and not rise in Dhanu periods is lopsided
understanding of the nature of Dhanu rashi.
Note: In Dhanu-Meshaa, lagna his brother Sanjay Gandhi died
in an aeroplane crash. There is Saturn in in the 3rd house aspected
by Mars.

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3. But again, in the Dhanu-Simha period (both rashis of rise and

fall) his mother was killed. (February 1984 to November
1984). The sinister feature pointed out earlier manifested itself
into an unforgettable national tragedy. Mars is also the 4th lord
from Simha aspected by the 6th lord Saturn.
4. This happened in the sub-period of Simha which contains all
Jaimini rajayogas for Rajiv Gandhi. The then president of India,
Giani Zail Singh who had gone on record saying that he could
even sweep a floor if Indira Gandhi had asked him to do it,
nominated Rajiv Gandhi for the post of the prime minister. The
Giani is criticised for that undemocratic decision even today.
Yet neither Giani nor Rajiv could have known that the Simha
sub period had to be for him (as for Charan Singh as we have
seen) the period of the highest rise in life.

The Meena Period

Then came the Meena period (1985 to 1993). Meena is the 8th
house both from his birth lagna and the atmakaraka. The 8th rashi
from Meena is Tula whose period came in August 1989 and lasted
till April 1990. Rajiv won his own parliamentary elections but his party
could not get enough seats for him to become the prime minister
again. Rahu in the 10th house from Tula was the spoil sport.
Now, Rajiv thought that he could fight back as his mother had
done in 1980.
In the Meena-Vrisha period (December 1990 to August 199 1)he
faced the Indian masses with little police escort which was unwise.
Vrisha is the rashi of vehicular accidents and is the 6th house from
his Karakamsha which is Dhanu. He was killed in a bomb blast on
May 21, 1991.
Note: Do not insist blindly that in the Vrisha periods or sub periods
vehicular accidents will take place. It must be there in the horoscope.
A belief current in Hindu families is that family fortunes decline
in the third generation. The first prime minister of India from the
Nehru-Gandhi lineage was Jawaharlal. The second was Indira’s his
own mother. Rajiv was the third.
Is this a belief, a superstition or truth?

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K.N. Rao
(October 12, 1931)
(Alive at the time of writing)
My horoscope is as follows. | will 'be brief in the discussion. | am
including it here because my researches in the Mandook dasha started
with my own horoscope.

AK Sun PK Mercury Pada Tula

AmK Jupiter GK Venus 7P Mesha
BK Saturn DK Moon DKN Tula
MK Mars KL Simha UP Kanya
| must make it clear that |am producing this piece because testing
the Mandook dasha on my own horoscope gave me valuable clues
which | tested on other horoscopes later.

Birth of Siblings
1. When I ran the Tula period (1931 to 1943) in the Makar sub-
period a sister younger to me was born. Saturn, my bk aspects
the 3rd house from Makara.
2. In Vrisha sub-period (1937-38) with Jupiter in the 3rd house
brother younger was born.
3. In the Dhanu sub-period which has the bhatrikaraka youngest
sister was born.
4. In 1941-42 in the Mithuna sub-period which is aspected by the
bhatrikaraka my youngest brother was born.

Parameters ;
Test the following. Younger siblings are born (if promised in the
horoscope) when the bhatrikaraka or Jupiter or Mars influences the
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Rahu
8
Mars Venus 5
: Moon
K N Rao Jupiter
October 12, 1931 7
07:55:22 a.m.
Lat: 16N13
Long: 81E12
3,
12 2
Saturn

Lagna 21°55) Mars 24°02! Venus (03°55

Sun 24°53" Mercury 20°06! Saturn 24°04!
Moon 02°46" Jupiter 24°43) Ketu 12°33!

Jupiter

AmK
are |

3rd house. In the case of Rajiv Gandhi his younger brother was born
when he was running Simha-Kumbha. The third house from Kumbha
is aspected both by his bhatrikaraka and Jupiter.
5. In 1942-43 when | was running the Kanya period which has
the Sun (the father) my father,a freedom fighter was in British
iail.
In the same period,it being the 12th house from the lagna |
was in a hospital down with typhoid and there was almost no
hope of my surviving.
My schooling started,after coaching at home, at the age of
seven in the Vrisha sub-period from where the putrakaraka,
Mercury is in the 5th house.
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8. In 1941-42 sub-period of Mithuna with the Moon and Venus

in the 5th house distinguished myself in poetry recitation
competetions and always won the first prize.

Makar Period (1943-45)

With the Moon and Venus in the 10th house | reached greater heights
in recitation.

Mesha Period (1945 to 1955)

With the Moon, Venus and Mars aspecting the 5th house | studied
a variety of subjects but could not achieve the best in my academic
career as the 5th lord, the Sun is in the 6th under affliction.
But it was the period of most agonizing sex torments of my life
with the darakaraka and Venus with Mars in the 7th house. But Jupiter
in the 4th house proved a great mother’s correct instruction to save
me.
From here Jupiter aspects the 11th house. | won prizes, in
university debates and sports, wrote for the newspapersand prepared
to launch myself into a career at the earliest.

Karka Period (1955 to 1965)

Amatyakaraka is here and it is the 10th house from my ascendant
and the pada lagna. | succeeded in the all India competition and
became an officer in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department. From
my Karakamsha( Simha) | have the Sun (governmentservice)and
Mercury exalted in the 2nd house, giving me a career both in accounts
earlier and now in astrology, since Mercury is the planet of astrology.
Note: | am getting this from the Karakamsha of the birth
horoscope and not from the swansha as PS. Sastry would insist on.
In the 12th house from Karakamsha there is Jupiter, while in the
12th house from Karakamsha in the Swamsha there is Mercury which
has given me the company of great yogis who have shown to me
the other, the spiritual part, of human life.

Mantra Deeksha
In the Vrisha sub-period (August 1961 to June 1962) | met my great
Guru, ‘Swami Paramananda Saraswati. See the atmakaraka,

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putrakaraka(for mantras)with Ketu in the 5th house.

But the 3rd and 9th houses from here are afflicted. My father
died in the Kumbha sub-period (October 1960 to August 1961). The
Sun is in the 8th house from here.

Vrischika Period (1965-67)

My best spiritual experiences came in this period many of which |
have mentioned in my book, Yogis, Destiny and the Wheel of
Time.Guru,(Jupiterjexalted, in the 9th houseand the5th house
receiving the aspects of atmakaraka, putrakaraka and Ketu explains
all this.

Mother’s Death
| can skip many other details and jump to the Vrisha period from
where both my Moon and Matrikaraka, Mars fall in the 6th house.
My mother fell sick seriously and she died in the Tula sub-period which
has both of these.(October 1984 to June 1985.)

Dhanu Period (1988 to 1996)

In the Dhanu period | am running now (1988 to 1996) with both
the atmakaraka and the putrakaraka in the 10th house. It also being
the 12th house from the lagna and pada lagna, | have thus far gone
to USA to teach astrology four times since 1993.
My first book was published in the sub-period of Meena from
where exalted Jupiter is in the 5th house.
This is the sixteenth book |am writing (August 1995) in the period
of Dhanu.
In the Kumbha sub-period (1994) with four planets aspecting the
Ath house from there | purchased a small house in a housing society.
| therefore know that the Meena period will be good for
authorship and spiritual practice, with exalted Jupiter in the 5th house
but bad for health with three planets in the 8th house from Meena.
Here | have revealed the secrets of the my method of quick
reading of horoscopes which some misguided people in India and
USA mistake for pyschic powers.
Caution: Do not place full trustin such quick readings till you have
practised it on at least one hundred horoscopes.

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Summary and
Conclusion
When | find fault with the translators of book on astrology it is with
a good reason. They should first test the principles on horoscopes
practically otherwise they land in unhelpful statements as B.
Suryanarain Rao has made in his English translation of Jaimini Sutras
and many others in Hindi.

A translation without illustrations is mostly a storehouse’ of

confusion and darkness which is mistaken for illumination.
The scheme | have followed in this book is:

Karakamsha and Mandook Dasha

i | have given four horoscopes of engineers to prove what would
be the nature of one’s education from the karakamsha in the
birth horoscope and then in a particular dasha.
Then | have taken six horoscopes with navamshas, as done in
the earlier horoscopes, of people in the line of artistic
profession. Again | have used the Karakamsha.
| have given the horoscopes of three world famous personalities
to show how absurd it is to over-emphasize the meaning of a
sutra like ifthe Karakamsha is in Meena one attains to salvation
as B. Suryanarain and other translators have done without any
intelligent comment that it alone cannot guarantee salvation. |
know of terrible criminals who have Meena karakamsha.

Padas
4. Then | have shown how the facile explanation about married
harmony on the basis of the padas of the lagna and the seventh

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house alone cannot be the sole criterion. B.Suryanarain Rao’s

comment about padas being in the 6th, 8th or the 12th houses
from the lagna shows his ignorance of the role of padas in
predictions as he never seems to have calculated them to test
the meaning of the sutra. Indira Gandhi had the pada of the
lagna and the 7th house in kendras from each other. Her
married was life very disastrous.

All Rashis
5. Next| have taken up full twelve rashis and showed the lve rashis
and given quick methods of doing astrological readings. This
will show the method both of the calculation of the dasha and
broad interpretations of the trends of expected events of life
only.

Enlarged Portraits
6. Then | have given three horoscopes, two of India’s ex-prime
ministers showing the great rajayogas and their time of
fructification. Their rise and fall is so clear.

Mine
7. \have included mine to show how | could see even some details
like the time of the birth of siblings younger to me, the time
of spiritual initiation authorship, foreign journeys etc.

Importance of the Dasha System

8. All the yogas must be seen as the Wheel of Time rotates. It
is why astrology without a dasha system is a mere superstition.
Those who claim that without knowing the predictive techniques
they can do even psychological readings are self-deluding
themselves. An astrologer who cannot see an event happening
in future can do only vacuous counselling and do substanceless
astrology.

More than one Dasha

9. Then remember doing only one dasha for predictions is an
escapist approach. Most of the astrologers are quacks not well

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k Dasha

trained even. But they have some chancy predictions to their

credit which were given without any sound methodology.
Like my earlier book on Jaimini’s Chara Dasha, this book is a
totally original and fundamental research of mine. |do hope that some
of our bright colleagues and students will study. it critically and do
further researches.

Caution:
Make use of Jaimini’s rashi dashas for a broad reading of a
horoscope. Subtler and finer readings come out of the application
of navamsha dasha on which, God willing, | may write in future.
It is necessary to repeat that | am not claiming that | am an
authority on Jaimini astrology. But then | must also state here that from
the written readings given by the great Vemuri Rammurthy Sastri
whom | never met, | picked enough hints to launch myself boldly and
confidently on these researches.
| have worked on sixteen more dashas:of Jaimini similarly.
But | always remember what a friend told me: an astrologer in
classical mould used to say that astrology was not meant to be done
by grihastis (house holders) but was to be practised only by sanyasis
(renunciates). He knew Jaimini astrology and drew a line of distinction
between Parashari and Jaimini. In Jaimini astrology there were the
secrets of bondage and salvation which is why it had to be kept a
secret in the form of sufras or aphorisms. Such secrets are there in
Parasharayet this system could be made use of for day to day general
and mundane predictions.
The argument of this astrologer seems to be valid in the Indian
context where | have seen grihasthi-astrologer emphasizing the
negativity of a horoscope too often. One who has the burdens of
family or has to depend on astrology for a living will get conditioned
by many factors. For him astrology may not be spiritual pursuit has
been the argument of many. But how valid is that argument in modern
context when people can pick up astrology by reading two books, by
even writing one book, which is an assembled material only, and claim
to be astrologers ?
From my own limited experience, though | have worked on
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mundane side of human life, the spiritual life and the disasters which
cannot be detected easily through any other system. Jaimini astrology
is the most comprehensive system condensed, in fact, super-
condensed in about one thousand sutras.
If each sutra were to be expanded, unravelled, we would have
to write a fifty page commentary on each sutra. It will mean that over
fiftythousand pages will have to be written by a team of great
astrologers to unravel the secrets of Jaimini.
That is not likely to happen ever.
So one must keep struggling with Jaimini astrology. In talking of
this struggle | must state here very clearly that Jaimini astrology can
be used broadly as we do in rashi dashas and it would meet the need
the demands to some extent. For finer and subtler predictions all the
casting must be hundred percent accurate . Needless to say that the
birth time must be very accurate. To work on Jaimini at deeper levels
can be perilous without a hundred percent correct horoscope. It is
why most of the astrologers remain confined to the birth horoscope
and the Vimshottari dasha. That is a very unsatisfactory and narrow
approach to the super-science of astrology.
So | must conclude the book by remembering the great Vemuri
Rammurthy without whose written readings | could never have
discovered the beauty of Jaimini astrology.
Let me remember him reverentially.

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