Ashtakavarga Calculator - Sarvashtakavarga Chart
Turn your birth chart into the Bhinnashtakavarga and Sarvashtakavarga bindu tables that classical Vedic astrology uses to weigh every sign and house.
Ashtakavarga is a scoring system that measures how supported each of the twelve signs is. Every one of the eight reference points — the seven grahas from the Sun to Saturn, plus the Lagna (Ascendant) — contributes a benefic point, called a bindu or rekha, to certain signs. Count the bindus a sign collects from all eight references and you get its Bhinnashtakavarga (BAV) value, a number from 0 to 8. Jagannatha Hora builds all seven planetary BAV tables and their Sarvashtakavarga (SAV) sum for your exact birth data.
Ashtakavarga is arithmetic: the benefic points each reference gives are fixed by the classics, so the same rules applied to the same chart give the same bindu grid. Because it reduces a chart to a clean numeric map, Ashtakavarga is widely used to compare houses, weigh a dasha result, and read whether a transiting planet is passing through a rich or a lean sign.
How the 337 bindus are built
Each graha spreads a fixed number of bindus across the twelve signs in its own Bhinnashtakavarga — a total that never changes from chart to chart. Add the seven planetary totals and you always reach the Sarvashtakavarga grand total of 337 bindus.
| Order | Graha (reference point) | Bindus (BAV) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun (Surya) | 48 |
| 2 | Moon (Chandra) | 49 |
| 3 | Mars (Mangala) | 39 |
| 4 | Mercury (Budha) | 54 |
| 5 | Jupiter (Guru) | 56 |
| 6 | Venus (Shukra) | 52 |
| 7 | Saturn (Shani) | 39 |
| Sarvashtakavarga total (seven grahas) | 337 | |
The Lagna is one of the eight references that award bindus, but only the seven planetary BAV totals are summed into the 337-point Sarvashtakavarga; how those 337 bindus fall across your twelve signs is what your chart decides.
How to read the result
Begin with the Sarvashtakavarga chart. Its cells are signs, not houses, numbered 1 for Aries round to 12 for Pisces in the fixed South Indian layout, so find the lagna's sign and count the houses from there; Average, Maximum and Minimum sit under the grid. BPHS weighs each house by its count and also compares neighbours: more rekhas in the 11th than the 10th, fewer in the 12th than the 11th and the lagna holding more than any other house is a combination it reads for wealth.
Lower down, the eight Individual Planet Ashtakavargas give one chart for each of the seven grahas and one for the lagna, each with its total and the same three statistics. To see why a cell holds its number, open Prastara Analysis, choose a graha and a sign, and the screen lists which of the eight references gave a point there and which did not. Narasimha Rao reaches for this spread-out view in transit work, when it matters which references support a sign rather than how many.
The Pinda Strength table, placed directly under the Sarvashtakavarga, works from a reduced grid that the screen does not draw: each graha's table passes through Trikona Sodhana and then Ekadhipatya Sodhana, as BPHS chapters 67 and 68 lay down, before its Rasi and Graha Pindas are taken. Rows are ordered by Sodhya Pinda, the sum of the two, and each bar shows a graha's share of the top figure. The lagna's row stays at zero, because pindas are worked for the seven grahas.
Key terms
- Rekha
- Parasara's word for a benefic point, marked with a line; the bindus counted on this screen are the same benefic points under the opposite naming.
- Karana
- Parasara's word for a malefic place in a graha's table, marked with a dot; in Prastara Analysis it is a reference listed as not contributing.
- Prastara Ashtakavarga
- The spread-out form of a graha's table, showing for each sign which references gave a point; adding a sign's column rebuilds that sign's count.
- Trikona Sodhana
- The trinal reduction: across three trine signs the minimum count is taken from all three, or all become zero when equal, unless one already holds zero.
- Ekadhipatya Sodhana
- The second reduction, across the two signs owned by one graha, settled by which of the pair holds a planet; the Sun's and Moon's single signs stay unchanged.
- Rasi Pinda
- The sum, over the twelve signs, of each sign's reduced count multiplied by that sign's fixed multiplier.
- Graha Pinda
- The sum of the reduced counts in the signs holding grahas, each multiplied by the multiplier of the graha standing there.
- Samudaya Ashtakavarga
- Parasara's name for the aggregated table this screen shows as the Sarvashtakavarga, the seven grahas' counts added sign by sign.
House strength at a glance
The Sarvashtakavarga shows how many of the 337 bindus land in each sign, so you can see which houses are richly supported and which are lean. BPHS treats more than 30 bindus in a sign as strong, 25 to 30 as middling and under 25 as weak.
Sharper transit reading
Lay a transiting planet over its own Bhinnashtakavarga and you can tell whether it is crossing a high-bindu sign or a low-bindu one — the core Ashtakavarga method for weighing gochara.
Every chart, one method
The bindu grids are built from the rasi chart, the classical basis for Ashtakavarga, for the seven grahas and the Lagna.
Common questions
What is Ashtakavarga?
Ashtakavarga is a Vedic point-scoring system. Eight reference points — the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the Lagna — each award benefic points (bindus) to specific signs. Adding a sign's bindus from all eight references gives its Bhinnashtakavarga score of 0 to 8, and summing the seven planetary tables gives the Sarvashtakavarga.
What is the difference between Bhinnashtakavarga and Sarvashtakavarga?
Bhinnashtakavarga (BAV) is the individual table for a single graha, showing 0 to 8 bindus per sign. Sarvashtakavarga (SAV) is the combined table: for each sign you add the bindus from all seven planetary BAVs. The SAV always totals 337 bindus across the twelve signs.
How do you read an Ashtakavarga chart?
Read it sign by sign. In a Bhinnashtakavarga cell the screen marks 4 to 8 bindus as strong, 3 as moderate and 0 to 2 as weak. In the Sarvashtakavarga, compare each sign's share of the 337 bindus — the richer signs, and the houses they fall in, carry the most classical weight.
How many bindus are there in Sarvashtakavarga?
Exactly 337, spread across the twelve signs. That total is fixed because each graha contributes a set number of bindus in its own table — 48 for the Sun, 49 the Moon, 39 Mars, 54 Mercury, 56 Jupiter, 52 Venus and 39 Saturn — which always add up to 337. Only how they distribute across your signs changes with the chart.
Why do some books call Ashtakavarga points rekhas and others bindus?
Parasara marks a benefic place with a line, a rekha, and a malefic place with a dot, a bindu. Narasimha Rao notes that some astrologers, especially in south India, use the opposite naming. The counts do not change with the name; the bindus on this screen are the benefic points.
What is Sodhya Pinda in Ashtakavarga?
Sodhya Pinda is a graha's Rasi Pinda plus its Graha Pinda, worked from its Ashtakavarga after Trikona and Ekadhipatya Sodhana. BPHS calls this sum the Yoga Pinda, multiplies it by a sign's rekhas and divides by 27, taking the remainder as a nakshatra to note when Saturn transits it.