Ashtakavarga Calculator
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.
The strength of Ashtakavarga is that it is arithmetic, not opinion: the benefic points each reference gives are fixed by the classics, so two astrologers working the same chart arrive at 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.
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. Classical texts treat 30 or more bindus in a sign as strong 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 without guesswork.
Every chart, one method
The same eight-reference rule applies to divisional charts, so you can build Ashtakavarga for the D-9, D-10 or any varga and compare bindu counts the way you would in the rasi chart.
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, a graha in a sign with 5 to 8 bindus is well supported and 0 to 3 is poorly supported, with 4 as neutral. 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.