MY AIMS IN DOING RESEARCH IN JAIMINI CHARA DASHA

KN Rao

I must explain that I had been giving excellent predictions through Vimshottari dasha and vargas
which late Shehadri mentioned in his books but which I popularised on a large scale.
But I had to use Chara dasha and many other dashas of Jaimini out of sheer necessity and
demand. The reasons are:
1. During my service career I was posted in Shillong (1962-63) when I met many Bengalis who
had lost their birth horoscopes when they were fleeing from what then was East Pakistan.
2. Then I had two postings in Calcutta (1967 to 1969 and again from 1975 to 1978 when again I
met many Bengalis who had lost their birth horoscopes when they were fleeing from what then
was East Pakistan.
3. From 1978 till my retirement in 1990, I met many Punjabis and Haryanvis and Delhites who
were either refugees who had lost their horoscopes while fleeing from West Pakistan at the time
of the partition of India in 1947 or had Arya Samaj background and never got their horoscopes
prepared. When they felt the need to have astrological readings, some of them came to me and I
found out that if I fixed their lagnas properly on the basis of the scanty information they
provided, without fixing the degrees of the lagna, I could give them helpful predictions on the
basis of Chara dasha and seven, and only seven karakas.
I also found that being a government officer with ten to five office hours, I was always short of
time and I needed accurate Vimshottari dasha after correcting the birth time which is wrong in
ninety percent times. I solved my problem by heavily relying on Chara dasha and Karakas and
double checked it with Vimshottari dasha without using vargas in most cases and gave good
predictions though some went wrong awfully also.
In those cases where I had accurate horoscopes, I used both dashas and even some conditional
dashas on which I did lot of research but have left it to my colleagues in the Astrology Faculty of
the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan. In these cases I invariably used divisional charts most of
which,(leaving some) I have revealed in my books. Let me talk about ECMD.
Keeping this background in the mind follow my discussion of the horoscopes under ECMCD or
Education, Career, Marriage, Children and Death.
Follow my line of reasoning by preparing charts in which all birth horososcopes are:
1) Marked with karakas.
2) Mark the Karakamsha (KL) alongwith the Atmakaraka also in the lagna.
3) Mark the putrakaraka (PK)
4) Mark the darakaraka and also the darakaraka navamsha in the birth horoscope. (DKN) and
note the dual use I make of it for marriage and also death.
5) Mark the upapada in the birth horoscope.
Computing the Chara dasha periods
In calculating the periods I neither add one extra year for exalted planet nor deduct one extra for
debilitated period for the following reasons:
1) Since there are only twelve rashis, so the maximum dasha period can be of twelve years only.
If Mercury is at two degrees in Kanya,by adding one year to full twelve year period it will
become thirteen.
2) If Jupiter is at two degrees in Makara, for the Dhanu period the period will be zero which
appears absurd to me as no rashi can have zero period. Additionally, Dhanu periods are known
for rise and fall, sudden events and even tragedies. If in a horoscope there is a zero year for it,
some important events cannot be seen at all is my experience.
3) In timing events in horoscopes which have exalted and debilitated planets as in the case of
Queen Elizabeth II and Chandrasekhar, the former prime minister of India, I will show how
following my method, timing of events becomes accurate.
I and my students have followed this method and have given many successful predictions with
timing becoming accurate. The illustrative horoscopes being used here are of those famous
persons who life events are historically documented and the horoscopes used have correct lagnas
though the degrees of the lagna may be debatable. But in using Chara dasha that is not a
handicap.
NOTE: I use the Karakamsha lagna in the birth horoscope for many good reasons which are
sound. I will explain it. If all karakas are used in navamsha it is called Swamsha. It is the
tradition followed in many parts of northern India and gives excellent results. See a sutra for
example:
Shukrendo Shukradrishe rasavadi p 49, meaning that if Venus is in Karakamsha lagna and is
aspected by Moon, he will become a dealer in medicines etc. (Suresh Ch, Mishra Jaimini Sutram
of Ranjan Publications, 1989 edition in Hindi)
Anyone in the world with Moon and Venus in the same degrees as Atmakaraka and
Amatyakaraka in the birth horoscope will also have them in navamsha and they all will become
dealers in medicines. If you judge it from Karakamsha in lagna it may give a different meaning
and lot of flexibility is available for interpretation. It is why traditionally, north Indian
astrologers put Karakamsha in the birth horoscope and judge the results.
If you blend the results from Karakamsha in lagna and Karakamsha in Swamsha (meaning all
karakas put in navamsha as south Indian astrologers do) you get better results.
Special Point
Finally, no writer on Jaimini has talked of Darakaraka as both giver of spouse and also
death. Death should ofcourse be predicted after finding out the span of life which is a tough
task and should be approached through many techniques combined in a harmonious
scheme and technique.
MY SEVEN STEP APPROACH
Originally written for Journal of Astrology. This article and related material has been
syndicated to other websites.
Lost in wilderness, shrouded in the ambiguity of aphorism and interpreted in arbitrary fashion by astrologers with
genuine to fraudulent claims, Jaimini astrology will continue to baffle astrologers for many more decades.
What then should be the approach of an astrologer in genuine search of working and workable Jaimini methods
tormented me, as it must have many astrologers. I therefore evolved a seven step approach.
First step
Each astrologer wanting to make Jaimini astrology his predictive tool must first read
whatever books are available, most of them in translations.

My Findings: Karakas
The first problem was to decide when to use seven karakas and when eight. It was not a
ticklish problem at all as if all planets are calculated upto seconds, there never was a clash
between two planets contesting for the position of a karaka. Try it and see if I am right. I
solved this problem easily.
Meaning of Karakas: My Original Research
I studied whatever was available on Jaimini and collected a huge library and found that no
one, even the most respected Krishna Mishra or Neelakantha even hinted at how these
Karakas were to be used. It was like someone telling me that he lived in Bombay but never
gave his address. It shocked me totally and sometimes I felt that either it was hidden or
these great and famous commentators never understood their uses. Then, B.Suryanarain
Rao, B.V.Raman, P.S.Sastry or Iranganti Rancharya who wrote articles in the Astrological
Magazine never even pointed out or produced any research to show how these karakas
were to be used. I took a bold decision to do it myself, a task which had never been done
before by anyone.
Rule of harmony
Then as in law, so in astrology follow the principle of harmony in the interpretation of
karakas. I reasoned out myself and came with a workable method which has turned to be a
very effective tool for prediction. I have shown it through various examples for twenty six
years now in 2010 and will show many more in this article.
Atmakaraka
In Parashara you have the first house and its lord for self so that should be the
Atmakaraka a planet with the highest degrees.
In Parashara you have the third house and its lord for siblings etc so that should be the
Bhatrikaraka. So that should be a planet with the third highest degrees.
In Parashara you have the fourth house and its lord for mother and home etc so that
should be the Matrikaraka. So that should be a planet with the fourth highest degrees.
In Parashara you have the fifth house for education, children, mantra etc. So the fifth
karaka must be Putrakaraka. So that should be a planet with the fifth highest degrees.
In Parashara you have the sixth house and its lord for enemies, diseases etc and so it
should be the Gnathikaraka.So that should be a planet with the sixth highest degrees.
In Parashara you have the seventh house and its lord for spouse etc and so it should be
the Darakaka. So that should be a planet with the lowest degrees.
What about Amatyakaraka then ? What about the second karaka then ?

It is Amatyakaraka which means a courtier or an important man in the court of a king in the
days of monarchy. So in our days it should mean an important man and by extension your
own importance. Is it a hint about career I wondered and proceeded with this assumption
with my research and got amazing results as I will show.
What about a karaka for father? The problem is easily solved if you use Bhatrikaraka and
Sun for father and Bhatrikaraka and Mars for siblings as has been as shown in some books
on Jaimini. Here we must remember that sthirakarakas must always be considered in
Jaimini astrology.
Abbreviations
The abbreviations I used then were AK, AmK, BK, MK.PK.GK. and DK. I then combined
sthirakakas like Sun for father, Moon for mother etc.
Padas
For padas I decided not to use any exception and got excellent results which I will show
partially in this article or a later article.
Second step
Whatever the translators say must never be accepted blindly. Remember that most of the
translators are Sanskrit scholars but not distinguished astrologers or successful predictors.
We are grateful to them for making available many manuscripts but we must become
cautious when it comes to their what I call shloka mauling and sutra chopping boast.
My Finding
Manoj Pathak a teacher of astrology in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi, decided to
do a research on Parasharas Chakra dasha and found that out of eight different translations
of available Parashara texts, no astrologer knew how to compute it. The translation they
gave never gave any accurate results. He has solved the problem amazingly now. He and
his students have been giving brilliant readings based on Chakra dasha. Soon they are
going to come out with an amazing book.
Through experience you will know when and how to ignore these translators or even
commentators (though there is none really who can be called a commentator of these
books) and then getting enmeshed in a confusion, seek a way out of it with lot of struggle if
you persist with your research.
Third step
Test whatever has been understood on the well known events of your own life on your chart
and on those of your family members or friends whose life events are known to you with
correct events and correct dates.
My Finding
The results I got were amazing and brilliant and it is the experience of my students also.
Fourth step
Now try it on the well known horoscopes of famous people and test the validity of your
understanding on the horoscopes of yours and of your relation and friends which you have
done earlier.
My Finding
It is what I am going to show in this article.
Fifth step
Do not bring in fanciful theories which are not mentioned in any translation of Jaimini like
the CHAR KARAKA SUBSTITUTION which is a fanciful, if also fraudulent, theory being
circulated now.
My Finding
Reject totally what is not given either in Jaimini sutras or in the Jaimini portion in Parashara
text otherwise you will walk into a cave where you will suffer astrological suffocation.
Sixth step
Wherever your testing necessitates it, modify with reasons the translation of Jaimini texts
remembering that most of these translators were and are only Sanskrit scholars and not
sucessful predictors because of which they may have misinterpreted or even wrongly
translated some shlokas and sutras.
My Finding
It is a risk you take but not rashly or with fraudulent claim that you have learnt it from
some secret tradition which can be dubious and fraudulent. Claiming to be belonging to a
secret tradition is marketing.
You must prove it and replicate it over a period of many years as I have done before
publishing my research. Your aim must be to contribute something for understanding the
changed and changing times through astrology and reject or modify whatever has
agricultural and pastoral connotation when these books of astrology were written.
Seventh step
Without losing respect for Krishna Mishra or Neelakantha, the famous commentators on
Jaimini sutras, keep in mind that their own understanding or interpretation may be
incomplete or even wrong.
My Finding
I will refer to it later and not in this article.
After laying the seven step approach let me explain how I proceeded in interpreting Jaimini
astrology within my own limitations. I took a bold decision to do it myself, a task which had
never been done before by anyone.
Special Point
Finally, no writer on Jaimini has talked of Darakaraka as both giver of spouse and also
death. Death should ofcourse be predicted after finding out the span of life which is a tough
task and should be approached through many techniques combined in a harmonious
scheme and technique.
Jaimini Astrology - 7 Step Method II
Originally written for Journal of Astrology. This article and related material has been
syndicated to other websites.
Just as you begin to grow mature you will learn that you have to avoid discussing astrology
with an astro-neophyte as much as the dogmatic pandit who argues that his interpretation
of a shloka from a Jyotisha book or even a sutra alone is correct. Challenge him, if you are
in a mood to argue with him, to show the correctness of his interpretation on ten
horoscopes and he will run away but become your enemy for the rest of your life. On such
occasions remember God and Oliver Goldsmith both. Every absurdity has a champion to
defend it. Oliver Goldsmith.Remember Oliver Goldsmith againIf you were to make little
fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Simhastha Brihaspati
Do not accept any interpretation given blindly as for example in Muhurtha Samhitas,
Simhastha Brihaspati or Jupiters transit in Simha is forbidden for marriages in some
muhurta books. Late Sri S.K.Kelkar did some work on it, being a suave non-traditionalist,
found that marriages done in this period were just like any other marriages and that the
promise in the birth horoscope alone showed correct results. I got done a larger research by
asking seven women astrologers, who had collected one hundred and sixty seven
horoscopes, to produce a largeresearch, the biggest on the subject till date and they were
amused to find that there was no terror in Simhastha Brihaspati marriages. Some of the
marriages which were three decades old were very happy ones.
The need to do this research arose because this is the only muhurtha I have seen which is
not universal but relates only to the territory between Godavari and Ganga. One astrologer
argued with me and said thatall gods (remember that it is said that Hindus have 33 crore
gods) go away to south India and do not remain in the north at all. I, in turn asked him if
the railway minister of India spent sleepless nights during this period when Jupiter was in
Simha.
The panchanga (almanac) makes ignore these researches and continue to frighten people
with the fictitious results of marriages performed when Jupiter is in Simha which occurs
every twelve years.
When these untested dogmas become source of fright, astrology ceases to be the super
science it is and, becomes a superstition. It is so with shlokas and sutras also. Do not accept
them blindly as we do not know what are genuine and what are interpolated.
Make your own bold research hoping that someday some wise astrologers will see the
utility of this for the modern age. Tradition should be respected not as a dogma but with
malleable intelligence. The aim should be to bring in liberal elitism without violence to
scientific and acceptable interpretation of rich astrological tradition of ours given by wise
pundits like Madhura Krishnamurthy Sastri and men of his caliber.
Working sincerely and most scientifically only one can see the extraordinary beauty of
astrology of Hindus. Let me give on instance which shows timing without embarrassing the
Indian Police Service officer, in service, whose wifes horoscope is being discussed.
A police officer Ajay Kashyap (IPS) posted in Delhi was selected for a prestigious job in UNO
in 2010 as I had predicted, but he was not being relieved by the authorities in Delhi including the
Lt. Governor because of the Commonwealth Games in October 2010. His wife, an astrology
student in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, asked me and I told her that according to her horoscope,
she would be out of India by 17 August 2010, CWG or no CWG. I had to devote some time to
calculate it which is a tedious task.
She wrote to me an email which I reproduce here editing out her id.
From: @mail.com > From: archna kashyap@.com ?
To: knrao@.com
Subject: Accurate prediction of Shri K N Rao
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:17:41 IST
Pranam
There was considerable uncertainty about my husband's movement from India on account
of his posting abroad. This dilemma was posed to Shri K N Rao our guru, a few weeks ago.
On the basis of his analysis of my patri alone, he predicted that we would move from India
to the United States on the 17th of August 2010. This was at a time when clearance from
the Government seemed difficult, if not remote, in view of the forthcoming Commonwealth
Games to be held in New Delhi in October 2010, and the critical position held by my
husband. However suddenly the denials of senior ministry officials were overruled and
Government approvals came through. Amazingly, our date of journey is exactly as predicted
by Shri K N Rao Sir. This is a remarkable prediction made by Shri K.N.Rao, based solely on
the study of the spouse's i.e. my, patri (chart).
With warmest regards
Archna
Sagittarius 12.12.1965,S
corpio
DOB: December 1965, 08: 13
am, Mirzapur, UP, India
Later when students asked me,
I explained that it is through the
Chara dasha which I had taught
to them and which jyotisha
softwares calculate wrongly. Let
me give instances from the
horoscope of Indira Gandhi how chara dasha shows some events in her life to the nearest
date. In the case of Mrs. Archana, see the chart and the DK in Mithuna and it is Mithuna
dasha running which is favourable for her husband. When she asked the question it was the
antardasha of Kanya from where the DK is in the tenth house of elevation about which I had
given prediction to her husband earlier last year (2009)
Now the pratyantara dasha running was of Karka from where DK is in the twelfth, Mithuna.
This pratyantara dasha was ending on 17 August 20101. It was easy to predict that by 17
August 2010 her husband would be out of India. She acknowledge it through email and told me
that the objections of the police commissioner Delhi, Mr. Dadhwal and, of the Lt.Governor, were
overruled by the Home Ministry which she had not expected and when the orders came, she
booked tickets for New York for 17 August.
This is the beauty of Jaimini and the Chara Dasha I have researched on, not caring for
obscurantist pandits who, knowing English, reel off their superstitions in the internet forums
and also in astrological journals. Left to themselves, they cannot prove the validity of their
own interpretation on one hundred horoscopes at least.
Some of them will come out with fanciful theories by saying that Shastyamsha, (D 60) is
used to see past birth and some other vargas like D 40 from what you inherit from your
mother and D 45 for what you inherit from your father with the fullest confidence that
Maharshi Parashara will not come down to the earth and complain about being
maimed. These are fanciful theories which can never find any support from available texts of
Parashara and cannot be proven on hundreds of
horoscopes.
(Those who use Jhora will observe that the Cancer PD ends on 18th Aug whereas the event
happened on 17th Aug matching with the ending of Cancer PD as calculated by K N Rao. )
I have lot of feedback from people to whom I have given consultation which I cannot
disclose and betray confidences. It is better to say that you have an astrological observation
and request other astrologers to test it on horoscopes in their possession to help astrology
progress with the astrologer remaining in the background.
An intelligent and open minded lover of astrology reads books with an open mind, tries the
techniques given and then forms his opinion. Here is someone who calls my method
controversial but still has something complimentary to say because he is intelligent, not
stupid; open minded not a dogma filled dullard.
I am editing out his id.
From: Acyutananda Dasa <a@com>
To: <knrao@.com>
Subject: Love your books! Please give me a mantra
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:51:41 IST
Dear Sri Sri KN Rao Srila Gurudeva,
I recently went to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Delhi where you teach. At the bookstore I
purchased nearly all of your books! (Everyone that was available to say the least). I love
your landmark work on Chara Dasha, and though it is quite a controversial work based on
other treatises which I have read on the subject, I do appreciate the scientific aspect you
throw into your work. Thats what makes it credible, reliable, and authentic. Meaning
therefore, that your books are the only ones which are useful and genuine on the market.
--------
I tell students not to accept blindly what is given in the translations of Brihat Parashara etc.
not to be overwhelmed by the pandit who rattles off lot of gibberish in Sanskrit but knows
no astrology of practical use to us in the day to day life. There are two types of astrologers
who are the main menace, first the greedy money earning one who can adopt any trick to
cheat you and the other who poses to be a scholar and misleads you with his obstinate
insistence on wrong interpretation, wrong approach, primitive approach and abysmal record
of predictive astrology.
A well placed woman student who had topped in our jyotisha examination and is now in
quite a high post wrote to me the following which I am reproducing again editing out her
id.
From: ambica gulati @.com>
To: knrao@.com
Subject: thank you
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:51:04 IST
Dear Sir
I thought I should thank you for grooming me to handle the position I do today. Your
research pattern is so well thought out that it can beat even the best of institutes. I
interviewed the director of Management Development Institute, Dr Pritam Singh (He got a
padma shri in 2003) and I discovered that you have been grooming me in the same way to
reach that mental and physical level. Today, I feel I am more equipped to handle life as I
read and write better and am more discriminating in my associations. So I guess, all's well
that ends well.
aimini Astrology - 7 Step Method II
I am quoting these letters, among hundreds I have, only to show that unless you have
healthy respect, with healthier skepticism, for the pandits, you cannot break new ground
and rescue astrology from its primitive state in which it still thrives.
When students bring instances of shocking, primitive meaning of some shlokas from
jyotisha books, I tell them to observe these in many horoscopes and see if it is fitting into
the pattern of life as it is in twenty first century. Otherwise you will go back to primitive
astrology because publishers all over the world know how to sell the rubbish they publish.
And there are writers who pay for publishing their books which suits many publishers. There
are writers who tell the publishers that they will not demand any royalty. The truth is that
they are more anxious to announce their arrival through dubious methods.
But you will not easily come across writers who can synthesize these and put them in
proper perspective for modern life. Ask yourself, as a very intelligent woman student of ours,
asked me after reading a latest version of Phaldeepika and reading the results of the seventh
house and planets placed there, if all this was to be accepted as gospel truth. For some women
the seventh house is entire horoscope.
Placement Of Planets In 7th house Wrt Marriage
Sun in 7H:
He suffers mental tension, physical pain and distress from the wife.
Moon in 7H:
Moon in the 7H gives ample conjugal comforts and pleasure. The wife is very charming with
a chiseled physique.
Mars in 7H:
He may lose conjugal happiness and live a disharmonious married life.
Mercury in 7H:
7th Mercury would tend to bestow a wise and pretty wife to the native.
Jupiter in 7H:
Jupiter in 7H bestows a beautiful and sagacious wife.
Venus in 7H:
Venus in 7H gives a pretty wife but along with comes an almost insatiable sexual appetite
which may lead to extra marital affairs and marital disharmony with eventual dire
consequences of separation or even divorce.
Saturn in 7H:
Sat in the 7H gives a serious wife of few words, who is often sad looking and disappointed.
This increases the possibility of separation and marital disharmony.
Rahu in 7H:
Rahu directly controls the serpent power hidden in a man. Rahu is impulsive and must work
through the extremes. Rahu in 7H can either inflame the passion in a man to a point of
instability or may extinguish the sex flames completely - either of the way is not good for
conjugal bliss.
Ketu in 7H:
Ketu in 7H spoils the conjugal harmony, creates all kinds of fears.
Compiled by Anju Sachdeva
Taken from 'Phaldeepika' by Sage Mantreshwara translated by U K Jha Will you accept the
view of Mantreshwara or modify it and take a more composite view in the sociological context
of modern life? UK Jha has only translated, contributed nothing original, not being a
commentator. But you will not easily come across writers who can synthesize these, after deep
research, and put them in proper perspective for modern life.
1.) Take up the horoscope of Amitabh Bachchan with Rahu in the seventh house with no
aspect of any planet and association with any planet. In interpreting it, remember that he
belongs to the glamour world.
2) Laura Bush 4 Nov 1946, 18:00:00, Midland, Texas, USA with six planets in the seventh
and eighth house and remember that her husband continued to maul English language even
after becoming a born again Christian.
3) Indira Gandhi and her ruined married inspite of Moon being in the seventh house.
4) Devegowda 18 May 1933, 10.09 Hassan Karnataka with Karka Lagna and Saturn in the
seventh house.
5) Bush Sr. 12 June 1924, 10.43 Milton, MA USA with Simha lagna and Mars and Ketu in the
seventh house.
I can reel off instances after instances to show why astrology which had been rescued from
the hands of primitive half literate pandits who had kept alive the tradition of jyotisha
somehow (we are grateful to them) was modernized by B. Suryanana Rao, Dr. B.V.Raman
and some of their contemporaries to the extent it was possible. These days with very
intelligent, well educated and argumentative students who do not have respect for
all teachers, the challenge of modernizing astrology is being met more satisfactorily than ever
before. This is to be seen and experienced to be believed.
That is what Ambica meant when she wrote I thought I should thank you for grooming me
to handle the position I do today. Your research pattern is so well thought out that it can
beat even the best of institutes.
I have produced it here because when I was defending the case of astrology in the Supreme
Court on 3 Nov 2003, I was aware of the vicious arguments against astrology and its
primitive interpretations taking us to primitive age and leading to saffronization which was
the pet communist argument. While other astrologers who could have joined as petitioners-
in-person and argue in English chickened out, I was left alone, the only astrologer, to fight
the battle against Indias top lawyer, Shanti Bhushan. Because my astrology is modern not
primitive, interpretative in approach, non dogmatic in conclusions and methodical in vast
replication, I won the battle. That is what our students do and shine brilliantly, some of
them appear to be super brilliant and are the future greats of Hindu astrology. Some of the
crooked ones will become Kaal Sarpa Yogis also.
Same is the case with the ayanamsha. We use, Lahiris. If some ayanamsha lunatics come
out with different values, let them battle it out with modern astronomer to prove their point
and not run away from the battle. Since I rely on Jaiminis karakas, I have found that Lahiri
alone gives them correctly for correct results. Other ayanamshas sometimes convert the
Atmakaraka into Darakaraka and the whole sequence and ranking of karakas is turned
upside down. One very sattwick swami from south India, Tamilian or Keralite, by the name
Sadashiva Giri had met me many years ago and asked me to see his ayanamsha. I told him
that we were not interested in any astronomical discussion or even Surya Siddhanta. He
said that his ayanamsha was based on divine inspiration (Deva Dutta) and that publishers in
Delhi and the late R. Santhanam had insulted him.
An American woman, Deborrah Ress said that she would finance the publication of his book
if I wrote the preface. I did it neither accepting his ayanamsha nor rejecting. I asked
readers to judge it themselves as I did not want to insult a swami who was not boastful at
all like ayanamsha lunatics I have met often and so many times.
I have fought this battle for fifty years and now the new generation of educated astrologer
will do it better than what I have.
Let me quote from the research.
Jupiter in Simha successful marriages
In the end, it must repeated that researches must be produced in astrology with evidences
to rescue it from fraudulent, foolish and frivolous astrologers. It must also be remembered
that in the case of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and other Puranas, the Bhandarkar
Institute of Pune has done researches to remove interpolations from various versions. In the
case of astrology such work has not been done. Different publishers have published different
versions of many of these books. For instance, one can see different versions of the Brihat
Parashara Shastra and see some conflicting versions and contradictions in them. It is not
difficult to assume that in the Muhurtha books similar interpolations may have taken place.
The prejudice attached to Simhastha Jupiter and marriages may be an interpolation. At any
rate, through our astrological research we see no reason to accept it as an astrologically
valid objection to marriages. K.N. Rao 10 September 2003
Let me here also refer to my argument in the Supreme Court as a petitioner in person in
1990 and 1991 when the reservation issue was being discussed. I had shown to the court
that in both Backward Classes Commission reports of Kaka Kalelkar 1955 and of B.P.Mandal
1978, astrologers were classified as backwards! The jocular argument I had put was that in
Mandal list of Andhra Pradeshs backward classes, Vaidiki and Niyogi were mentioned (such
was the abysmal quality of his investigation) and I am a Niyogi Brahmin of Andhra. And
known as an astrologer also, I could claim to be backward doubly. Why do astrologers want
to remain backward now when we can rescue it from narrow and irrational interpretation and
make it a subject higher than any being taught in the universities, more scientific and more
helpful and bafflingly brilliant?
I have encountered both types of pandits: one who knows some astrology but has a
ferocious pride of pedigree and obnoxious family hauteur and the other immensely likeable
scholars with winning humility like Sri Madhura Krishna Sastri who earn our eternal
gratitude for their enormous scholarship and lack of pride and acrimony.
Jaimini Astrology - 7 Step Method III

Originally written for Journal of Astrology and syndicated to other websites
It has been customary at the end of an astrological debate, actually a quarrel (these days
about Jaimini dashas) -- astrologers come away claiming victory. Starting with a
Sanskrit shloka or sutra, a fatuous rhetorical war path, they end up abusing each other. I
have seen it so often, astrologers using very offensive language and uttering arrant
nonsense. They spout ill-informed academic poison. They cannot overcome their obsessions.
Involved in such quarrels, you find yourself between a precipitous rock and a deep sea.
My argument offends them. I asked them how they can claim to know Jaimini astrology
without using Karakas. I have said that it is original research, not available anywhere else
except in my two deeply researched books on Chara Dasha and Mandook Dasha which I
tested and rested before writing them. To say that you know and do Jaimini astrology without
using Karakas is like saying that you do Parashari without using seven grahas (leaving out
Rahu and Ketu).
Jaimini astrology is epic in scale, mythic in symbolism and operates through subtlest hints
which are sub-atomic. Imagination is needed to unravel aphorisms. Jaimini astrology is the
greatest branch of astrology ever found anywhere in the world, dazzling in its vast range
but bafflingly recondite. One lifetime is not sufficient to grasp it. Even with what little one
grasps, one begins to give a false impression of being a seer. Instead of quarreling let us
arrive at a consensus.
I have repeatedly told students of astrology to follow some steps when dealing with doubtful
horoscopes. Once convinced of their correctness, they should not to bother for the criticism
and comment of most of the astrologers. It is, for example, preposterous to show the
horoscope of Atal Behari Vajpai with Tula lagna for different years, 1924 or 1925 and
prove a point or a research. Read the biography of Atalji and see what horoscope is given
there!! It is Vrischika lagna and 1924 birth which I alone have used among astrologers, as
far as I know, and I will show it in a later article .!!!
Follow the steps given here.
First step: When in doubt about the correctness of a horoscope use Chara Dasha as I do,
as I alone do. Verify some indisputable events of a horoscope like education, marriage,
children, career etc. if such details are available. Examine it again through the most popular
Vimshottari dasha and, if you arrive at the correct degrees of the lagna, a strenuous
exercise, use the relevant vargas. Applicable conditional dasha should be applied. It will be
shown in the cases of Sachin Tendulkar and Benazir Bhutto in this article.
Step two: Before accepting a horoscope, collect as many events of a mans life as you can
and verify them soundly. Choose bio-facts as I call it, always for verification. It must be
done consistently applying the same parameters to horoscopes after horoscopes.
Step three: Give some short term predictions to them or, about them, and get or collect a
feedback to be convinced that you are working with correct or corrected horoscopes. If
majority of your predictions have come out correct, do not get yourself influenced by the
claim of astrologers that they have a different horoscope which alone is correct. The
horoscope of Atal Behari Vajpai is a good example to remember all your life.
Step four: Always ignore ponga pandits who claim to know the meaning of
Sanskritshloka or sutra and, knowing English, dash off their opinions, these days, on
different fora of the internet or even some astrological journals.
Step five: If inspite of all these you discover that you have committed an error in getting or
working on a wrong horoscope or, if your verification was faulty, admit it honestly.
Otherwise, astrology will suffer and you will get dubbed as dishonest. Let astrologers be not
liars. To date, I have admitted in writing my failed predictions giving reasons.
Step six: If in doing a research on horoscopes, you come across a brilliant predictive clue,
test it on as many horoscope as you have in your possession. The sample size for testing
must be at least twenty five. Do not stop here but give predictions only on this basis for
some time to test the soundness of your discovery. Then use it openly in your predictions
and, if you like, in your writings.
Step seven: When you read articles of some writers you begin to pick and choose easily.
Some writers are very honest and will not use doubtful horoscopes and justify with
vehement dishonesty. Do not waste your time reading them anymore.
Step eight: Similarly, you will see some writers using good techniques soundly and some,
not. Follow only the techniques of honest writers. You will realize soon that in the world of
astrology there are many malicious fellows, betraying their low upbringing at the earliest.
Contributing something positive is not their primary aim.
Step nine: Always use, when you are doing the analysis of a horoscope, more than one
dasha though while writing, you may show and use one dasha only for brevity and clarity.
Step ten: Re-check what you have written. This has been always a fault with many
including me because while writing thoughts that race in the mind lead the writer into
unconscious errors which he fails to correct. This keeps happening is my honest opinion. The
racing mind moving faster than the eye has made me a very incompetent proof reader.
Step eleven: In doing a research on any dasha, unless some indisputable facts are verified
stage by stage, the results shown in stray incidents like becoming a prime minister, have no
meaning. Show the birth of siblings, the nature of education, some events relating to
parents, career patterns with its good and disastrous landmarks and, of course, marriage
and children with proper timing. Most of the researches show one or two events only
which cannot validate any dasha with conviction and confidence. That is the line I
have strictly followed in my books and articles, with examples. Every book on lesser known
and used dashas or lesser used dasha which has come out of the pen of BVB teachers of
Delhi follows this line strictly.
Step twelve
What to hide and what to reveal is a tough task for even an experienced writer of astrology
books. There are certain subtle factors which point to fatality and sexual crimes. Neither in
predicting nor in writing should they be revealed is a view I share with many astrologers of
earlier days of honest astrology. It now is a forgotten dream amidst so many unscrupulous
astrologers.
In writing over a period (from the prediction about the death of Indira Gandhi to Benazir
Bhutto, from 1984 to 2007), I have restrained from even talking about it, what I always
regard as the clinching factor, even in my conversations with astrologers. In the case of
Rajiv Gandhi, I was so sure of his violent end but the amended Terrorist Act his government
passed, choked many astrologers from even expressing honest fears. In making predictions
about their coming end I used the more obvious planetary combinations which I have
taught but never referred to the subtle and secret factors.
Jaimini Astrology - 7 Step Method III
Having said that let me deal with the horoscopes of some important persons which have
been always a source of hot debate and acrimonious controversy.
I will use in this article, the horoscopes of:
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Benazir Bhutto.
and others.
But first the controversy relating to the Karakamsha must be dealt with.
Karakamsha
Let me first clarify why I use Karakamsha in the birth lagna as the north Indian astrologers
do, and not in the navamsha.
I saw books on Jaimini by south Indian writers who put the Karakamsha (KL) in the
navamsha while the north Indian astrologers prepared a full chart with KL in the center in
the place of the lagna and put other planets as they are in the birth horoscopes.
I tested it on horoscopes with me and found that if I used the south Indian method, it
caused more confusion which I have explained in my book on Mandook Dasha (which I do
differently than other writers, with very good results) tested on many horoscopes, including mine
and got results. I will explain in later.
First let me explain why putting KL in the lagna appears logical to me.
Results of Karakamsha
B. Suryanarain Raos translation of Jaimini Sutras is a mere translation of the sutraswithout
any illustration. It was one the earliest books to influence me along with some books in
Hindi from Varanasi. 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. Read my comments in brackets which I have added now.

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. (Amitabh Bachchan
and all people born on 14 Oct 2010 should be government servants or fond of political
activities.)
Moon and Venus: If 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. (GLNanda would, a stop gap prime minister twice has this. All
people born on 19 Oct 2010 will bear arms or in professions involving fire. A friend of mine
has this combination in his horoscope and he worked in a bank. He does not prepare
medical mixtures but buys medicines only.)
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. (PVNarasimha Rao.
should have been a trader not a prime minister.)
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.
(Charan Singh would not have been politician. He knew astrology but did not know Jaimini)
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.
(Allpeople born in the world on 1 September 2010 will have this combination.)
Saturn: Will be famous in his line of work.
Someone showed me an article of a writer who, I was told, a very keen researcher in
Jaimini. He wrote that Saturn in Karakamsha makes one famous in ones own line. That is a
well know Jaimini aphorism. Jaimini says Saturn in Karakamsha or in 2nd house from
Karakamsha Lagna indicates the person will be known for his work.

Let me give an example.
Cast the horoscope of people anywhere in the world of 8 Sept 2009 according to the Lahiri
ayanamsha and see Saturn at twenty nine degrees and 51degrees. All the people born in
the world will be known for their work as they will become famous in their line. prasiddha
karmajivi. Why were people born at the same time as Indira Gandhi not famous? The
reason is that a prediction cannot be based on an isolated factor.
The north Indian style of Karakamsha
Put the Karakamsha in Dhanu and retain the planets of 8 Sept 2009 as in the birth lagna
and you get a different meaning which appeals to me.There cannot be a group of people
born all over the world who will become famous only because Saturn will be Atmakaraka
and therefore will be in Karakamsha of all the people in the world born on 8 Sept 2009 at
any time and in any lagna. The sheer absurdity of taking Karakamsha lagna so mechanically
and herding all the people born with Saturn as Atmakaraka must be noticed and discussed
by Jaimini scholars.
Notes
1. It should be clear that if the entire Navamsha of karakas are to be used for Karakamsha
then:

(a)Anyone who has Sun as the Atmakaraka will invariably have 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 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 as 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.
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.
Some astrologers use the Karakamsha in the birth horoscope and call it Karakamsha and
use the entire navamsha of all Jaimini Karakas and call it Swamsha which appeals to
reason. In an article later I will give scanned copies of Karakamsha prepared by north
Indian astrologers.
There is no hint given in any book available in the market to show how the Karakamsha and
Swamsha are distinguishable and which one is to be used when for predictive purposes.
Now see some hotly debated horoscopes. But before read what I have written on my
website www.journalofastrology.com
ETERNAL INDIA 29 - SUPPRESSION OF BIRTH DATA
4 March 2010, 11:44 AM

The debate among astrologers about the correct birth data or the suppression of the correct
birth details of celebrities and historical figures will be unending. Let me quote what I wrote
in the preface to LEARN SUCCESSFUL PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES OF HINDU ASTROLOGY.
"Birth-Time: Hearsay Evidence We in India have three historical instances of famous
men being discussed in astrological articles, including what they call their research. The
late D.P. Misra, a well-known politician of Madhya Pradesh, wrote in his book, "Living an
Era", that Indias super Bismark, Sardar Vallabh Patel, did not know his birth day, year and
time. When asked by astrologers, he decided, being an Iron Man, known for decisiveness,
that he was born on October 30, of some year in the nineteenth century and at a particular
time. Using that data, astrologers have discussed his horoscope too often and too
nauseatingly.
A more interesting case is that of the former Indian President, Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, who
according to a biography written by his son, S. Gopal, was born on a different day of
September (in the 4th week of the month, perhaps) one year before the year used by
astrologers and, the Government of India celebrates the Teachers Day on
September 5 every year. India's astrological journals and books contain the horoscope of
Dr. Radhakrishnan explaining Saraswati Yoga. But his own son has called his father an
illegitimate child with an entirely different date and year of birth.
More amusing is the gimmick of India celebrating the birth anniversary of the former Indian
Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, on October 2 every year when according to his well-
known family horoscope it should be 9 October. "
Birth-Time: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu The worst mistake committed by Dr. Raman in
Notable Horoscopes is in his discussion of the horoscope of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ignoring
all traditional evidence.
(a)As a contrast see what N. C. Lahiri gives in Advanced Ephemeris (p112) the birth detail
of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as 17-30 I.S.T. with Simha Lagna
(b)Dr. Raman takes the time as 8-56 p.m. which gives him Tula lagna.
(c)I have used the time given to me by some Bengali friends which gives me 4-42-10 p.m.
giving me Simha Lagna, though there is a difference of 48 minutes shown by N. C. Lahiri,
who, as he had once told me, that he not being an astrologer, could never correct a
horoscope.
Birth Lagna and Dogma: Prabhupad
There is in this book a long portrait of Prabhupad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami which took
considerable scrutiny because while the famous and distinguished astrologer, Gopesh Kumar
Ojha, gave him Makar lagna, an American astrologer insisted that it had to be Dhanu lagna,
giving not any astrological logic but, on the basis of a pure dogma. It is pernicious not to
follow astrological basics. First of all, there must be sound approach through the verification
of life events. See for instance the results attributed to Jupiter in the 8th house.
"Gurur-mrityago tasya VaikunthaGatham"
Which means that after death, those who have Jupiter in the 8th house, go to the highest
world.
What blindfolded the American astrologer was a prejudice. He saw concentration of five
planets in the 8th house of Rajneesh (Osho) and concluded, not on the basis of any
astrological logic, "the person is walking on the path to hell" . This is not astrology but
dogma, not a scientific approach and is not in harmony with the Mahaprabhus spirit (Taror-
api-sahishnu more tolerant than the tree.)
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Very early in my astrological career I came across a horoscope of Lal Bahadur Shastri with
Moon in Kanya and Dhanu lagna with the date of birth not given by as many as three
famous and established astrologers of India, Sri Suryanarain Vyas, Sri Hardeo Trivedi and
Dr.B.V.Raman.
I cast the horoscope and found that the date of birth was October 9 not 2nd on which his
birthday is celebrated. I asked Dr.Raman and also Hardeoji about it and they said that out
of their respect for Shastriji they decided not to give the date of birth but made successful
prediction about his short term as prime minister and tragic death.

Then in course of time an aunt of my younger brothers wife married someone in the family
of Lal Bahadur Shastri and I got the Memorial Volume in which the family horoscope given
was the same as used by the three astrologers referred to above with Dhanu lagna and
Moon in Kanya.
Tendulkar
In early nineties of the last century a television anchor from Bombay who specialized in
sports used to meet me in Delhi and promised that he would get the birth details of both
Tendulkar and Kambli. In his next visit he told me that he would not be able to get it as the
families of both Tendulkar and Kambli were advised not to give their birth details to anyone.
This may have led to the creation of 24 April as the birthday of Sachin Tendulkar.
Then when I got the birth details from Karveji and his daughter Pinky, I gave it to Sri Manoj
Pathak who has produced an article which is there displayed on the website.
I told many that the birth details of Virendra Sehwag were different in earlier year with his
month of birth shown as May or April not 20 October of 1978. But then an article in an issue
of the Journal of Astrology, later in a book, made it difficult for the wrong date to continue
since it was well known that I had got the details from the sister in law of the elder sister of
Virendra Sehwag. She is high ranking officer in the Indian railways and knows astrology.
Suppression of correct birth details was not possible in this case. There has been no such
compulsion in the case of Tendulkar.
Astrologers have always quarreled without realizing that they are fooled by politicians and
celebrities. They keep burning their fingers and never learn any lesson. But the age old
Hindu or even Moghul emperors tradition of giving wrong birth data will continue for some
reasons.