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By Tirth Doshi, Vedic astrologer in Ahmedabad. Parāśarī and Jaimini, True Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa.

Your Jaimini chara kārakas, from the ātmakāraka to the dārakāraka, with the sign, house, nakṣatra and navāṁśa of each. Rāhu is counted by default, as in Jagannātha Horā, and you can leave him out.

How it works

The chara kārakas are the grahas ranked by the degrees each has covered in its sign, whichever sign that is. The graha with the most is the ātmakāraka, the next is the amātyakāraka, and so on down to the dārakāraka, the one with the least. They are chara, moving, because a different graha takes each role in each chart.

Rāhu moves backwards, so his degrees are counted from the end of the sign, 30° less his longitude in it, as the Sudhā commentary on Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 32.13 says. With Rāhu there are eight kārakas and the fifth is the pitṛkāraka, for the father; this is what Jagannātha Horā uses unless you change it. Without Rāhu there are seven and no pitṛkāraka. Ketu is never a chara kāraka.

The ātmakāraka’s sign in the navāṁśa is the kārakāṁśa, and the iṣṭa devatā calculator reads the 12th from it. Houses are whole signs from the lagna. Positions use the True Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa. Nothing you enter here leaves your browser.

By Tirth Doshi

Tirth Doshi is a Vedic astrologer and sādhak based in Ahmedabad. He reads with the Parāśari and Jaimini systems on the True Citrāpakṣa ayanāṁśa, trained under a Nāth guru before building an independent practice grounded in the source texts, and is writing a compendium on the Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra. He runs the Tantric Astro YouTube channel and teaches the “From Basics to Mastery” course.

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