Glossary
Concise definitions for Vedic astrology terms used across the wiki.
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12th House
The twelfth house is traditionally associated with solitude, foreign environments, giving, major change, difficulty, and spiritual release.
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Antardasha
In Vedic astrology, Antardasha refers to a planetary sub-period used to refine the timing and interpretation of a broader Mahadasha.
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Ashtam
Ashtam generally refers to the eighth house or an eighth-house position in Vedic astrology, where it is traditionally associated with depth, longevity considerations, persistent difficulties, obstacles, contemplation,...
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Ashtam Bhav
Ashtam Bhav is the eighth house in Vedic astrology, traditionally associated with hidden matters, research, transformation, longevity, inherited resources, fear, and spiritual inquiry.
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Bal
Bal is a Vedic astrology term for strength, power, or capacity, especially the ability of a planet or chart factor to express its indications.
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Bhagya
Bhagya traditionally refers to fortune, opportunity, blessings, and the relative smoothness with which favorable circumstances may arise.
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Bhav
In Vedic astrology, Bhav refers to a house or field of life examined through its placement, lord, significator, and connections with other chart factors.
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Brain Line
In traditional palmistry, the Brain Line, or Head Line, is often read as an indication of thinking patterns, memory, understanding, and decision-making capacity.
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Buddhi
Buddhi is a Vedic astrology term for intellect, discernment, understanding, and the mental capacity that may guide choices in constructive or unconstructive directions.
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Budh
Budh is the Vedic astrology term for Mercury, a graha traditionally associated with intellect, analysis, communication, business, calculation, software, and related practical skills.
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Chandra
Chandra refers to the Moon in Vedic astrology, traditionally associated with mind, feeling, receptivity, mother-related indications, tithi, and certain family or reproductive themes.
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Chart
In Vedic astrology usage, a chart is an astrological map used to examine planetary placements, degrees, houses, signs, and divisional layers such as D1, D12, D16, D27, and D60. Different charts are traditionally read...
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Chhatha Bhav
Chhatha Bhav is the sixth house, traditionally associated with difficulties, competition, service, analysis, debts, disputes, illness, enemies, effort, and growth through challenge.
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D1
D1, or the rashi chart, is traditionally treated as the primary outer chart in Vedic astrology, showing the visible level of life, conduct, and chart promise, while requiring support from divisional charts for fuller...
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D10
D10, or Dashamsha, is traditionally treated in Vedic astrology as a divisional chart for profession, career, business, employment, and work-related karma.
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D12
D12, or Dwadashamsha, is traditionally used in Vedic astrology to examine ancestral lineage, inherited family patterns, and roots connected with parents and forebears.
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D16
D16 is a divisional chart in Vedic astrology traditionally used to examine movable luxury, comforts, vehicles, jewelry, and similar material supports.
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D20
D20 is a Vedic astrology divisional chart traditionally used to examine spiritual practice, inner search, worship patterns, mantra, initiation, and indications related to spiritual refinement.
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D30
In Vedic astrology, D30 is treated as a divisional chart used to examine difficulties, suffering, affliction, illness-related indications, enemies, and patterns of trouble rather than ordinary favorable events.
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D40
D40 is a divisional chart in Vedic astrology traditionally used to examine inner conditions, domestic happiness, deep-rooted stress, and related emotional or mental indications.
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D60
D60 is traditionally treated as a divisional chart for examining subtle patterns associated with past-life tendencies, carried strengths and weaknesses, and deeper motivations.
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D7
D7 is a divisional chart used in Vedic astrology for children, offspring, lineage, adoption, and related family indications.
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D9
D9, or Navamsha, is a divisional chart in Vedic astrology traditionally used to refine interpretation beyond the D1 chart, especially for inner disposition, planetary strength, marriage-related matters, spirituality,...
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Daan
Daan refers to charitable giving or donation and is traditionally included among the remedial practices of Vedic astrology.
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Dasha
In Vedic astrology, Dasha is a timing framework used to read when a planet, house, or divisional-chart condition may become more active in interpretation.
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Dasham Bhav
Dasham Bhav commonly denotes the tenth house, which is traditionally associated with karma, vocation, purposeful action, responsibility, status, and public recognition.
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Degree
A degree is a unit used to describe a planet’s precise position and movement within a zodiac sign.
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Dhan
In Vedic astrology usage, Dhan can refer not only to money and income but also to speech, health, family lineage, and cultivated values.
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Direction
In Vedic astrology and Vastu usage, direction may refer either to spatial orientation or to the thematic channel through which a planet, sign, house, or other factor may express its indications.
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Dosh
In Vedic astrology, Dosh refers to a chart condition traditionally interpreted as an imbalance, affliction, karmic concern, or obstructive influence whose effects may vary with the wider horoscope.
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Drishti
Drishti is the Vedic astrology concept of an aspect or directed influence through which a planet may affect another planet or house.
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Eighth House
In Vedic astrology, the eighth house is traditionally associated with longevity, hidden matters, transformation, chronic difficulties, inherited conditions, research, occult subjects, and accumulated karma.
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Eleventh House
In Vedic astrology, the eleventh house is often read as an indication of gains, income, fulfilled desires, expectations, mental skills, innovation, and growth in the quality of one’s work.
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Fire
Fire is an elemental principle traditionally associated with heat, transformation, creativity, vitality, and spiritual intention in Vedic astrology and related Vastu interpretations.
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First House
In Vedic astrology, the First House is traditionally associated with the ascendant, embodiment, personality, outlook, vitality, appearance, and the direction of personal growth.
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Fourth House
In Vedic astrology, the fourth house is traditionally associated with inner comfort, mental peace, home, mother-related indications, and forms of happiness or ease.
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Graha
In Vedic astrology, graha is traditionally used for a planetary factor whose strength, condition, placement, and contextual expression are examined when reading a chart.
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Jupiter
Jupiter in Vedic astrology is traditionally associated with dharma, knowledge, values, inner happiness, blessings, and protective or supportive indications in several chart contexts.
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Vedic Astrology
Vedic astrology is traditionally understood as an interpretive branch of astrology concerned with reading symbolic indications through established methods and perspectives.
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Karaka
In Vedic astrology, a karaka is a planet traditionally treated as a significator for particular houses, subjects, qualities, or activities.
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Karma
In Vedic astrology, karma refers broadly to action, conduct, and their traditionally interpreted consequences, including the role of present choices in shaping future patterns.
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Kendra
Kendra is commonly used in Vedic astrology for the angular houses and is traditionally associated with strength, responsibility, and the capacity to fulfill duties.
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Ketu
In Vedic astrology, Ketu is treated as a graha associated with divine symbolism, occult insight, intuition, dharma, lineage upliftment, and moksha-related indications, depending on chart context.
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Kundli
A Kundli is traditionally understood in Vedic astrology as a chart framework used to study planets, houses, degrees, and divisional charts for interpretive assessment.
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Lagna
Lagna is the ascendant or first-house reference point in Vedic astrology, traditionally used to read a person's nature, character, conduct, and chart orientation.
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Lagna Lord
In Vedic astrology, the Lagna Lord is the planetary ruler of the ascendant sign. Its placement, dignity, strength, and condition are traditionally used to assess how a person may orient themselves across life topics a...
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Lal Kitab
Lal Kitab is a Vedic astrology approach traditionally associated with distinctive methods for evaluating planets, houses, symbolic correspondences, and remedial practices.
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Mahadasha
A Mahadasha is a major planetary period that is traditionally used to identify the broader themes and possibilities active during a phase of life.
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Mangal
Mangal is the Vedic astrology name for Mars, a graha traditionally associated with force, courage, stamina, conflict, blood, anger, action, and the capacity to practice or recover effortfully, depending on chart context.
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Mantra
In Vedic astrology usage, mantra is commonly understood as a practice involving purposeful words or chanting that may support mental focus, constructive perspective, and remedial intention.
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Marriage
In Vedic astrology usage, marriage is a major life topic traditionally examined through the seventh house, Venus, the Navamsha chart, and related timing considerations.
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Nakshatra
In Vedic astrology, a Nakshatra is traditionally treated as a fine-grained interpretive layer that may clarify the direction, symbolism, and expression of planets and signs.
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Navam Bhav
Navam Bhav is the ninth house in a Vedic astrology chart, traditionally associated with dharma, fortune, higher learning, pilgrimage, blessings, guidance, and supportive influences.
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Navamsha
Navamsha, or D9, is a divisional chart in Vedic astrology traditionally used to examine inner nature, dharma, relationship indications, and the deeper strength of planets in relation to the main birth chart.
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Neecha
Neecha refers to a planetary condition in which a planet occupies its sign of debilitation and may express its significations with reduced strength or greater difficulty.
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Ninth House
In Vedic astrology, the ninth house is traditionally associated with dharma, fortune, higher learning, spiritual inquiry, blessings, and sources of support.
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North East
In Vastu interpreted through Vedic astrology, the north-east is traditionally associated with clarity, receptivity, Jupiter, and the head of the Vastu Purush.
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Numerology
In Vedic astrology, numerology is treated as a symbolic system that interprets calculated numbers, number combinations, and their positions in frameworks such as the Lo Shu Grid.
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Paap Graha
Paap Graha is a Vedic astrology term for planets traditionally associated with challenging, forceful, or obstructive effects, depending on their placement and context.
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Palmistry
Palmistry is a traditional interpretive practice that reads hand features, lines, mounts, and planetary correspondences as possible indications of mental patterns and life themes.
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Pancham
Pancham commonly means “fifth” and, in Vedic astrology usage, often refers to the fifth house and its traditional associations with children, affection, creativity, joy, devotion, and repetition.
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Pancham Bhav
Pancham Bhav is the fifth house in Vedic astrology, traditionally associated with receptivity to knowledge, creative intelligence, talent, passion, children, and future-oriented themes.
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Peedit
Peedit is a Vedic astrology term for an afflicted or distressed condition that may modify how a planet or house is interpreted.
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Rahu
Rahu is a Vedic astrology term used for a chart factor often associated with amplification, obstruction, separation, modern networks, and unconventional or confusing influences, depending on its placement and chart co...
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Rashi
In Vedic astrology, a rashi is a zodiac sign whose qualities may shape how planetary placements and broader chart patterns are interpreted.
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Remedy
In Vedic astrology, a remedy is a traditional practice intended to support balance or ease a difficult indication, selected through contextual assessment rather than a fixed formula.
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Rog
Rog is a Vedic astrology term for illness, disease, or a health-related disturbance, interpreted symbolically through factors such as houses, planets, imbalance, and karma.
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Santan
Santan is a Vedic astrology term for children, offspring, descendants, and related areas of interpretation.
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Saptam Bhav
Saptam Bhav is the seventh house in a Vedic astrology chart, traditionally associated with marriage, partnerships, agreements, associates, responsibilities, and engagement with others.
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Second House
In Vedic astrology, the Second House is traditionally associated with wealth, sustenance, family, food habits, speech, communication, and the practical continuation of life.
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Seventh House
In Vedic astrology, the seventh house is often read for partnership, business, trade, and marriage-related indications, with context changing by chart and divisional chart.
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Shani
Shani is the Vedic astrology name for Saturn, a graha traditionally associated with discipline, delay, service, technical work, law, austerity, vayu qualities, and pressure that may mature through time.
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Shubh Graha
Shubh Graha is a Vedic astrology term for a benefic planet whose natural qualities may support constructive or favorable outcomes, subject to its strength, placement, and chart context.
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Shukra
Shukra is the Vedic astrology name for Venus, traditionally associated with rasa, taste, enjoyment, relationship happiness, and inner feeling around Venus-related matters.
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Sixth House
In Vedic astrology, the sixth house is traditionally associated with pain, distortion, conflict, service, litigation, illness, enemies, visible causes, and problems that may still have remedies or workable solutions.
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South East
In Vedic astrology-related Vastu usage, the South-East is traditionally associated with the fire element, activity, cooking, digestion, and the conversion or circulation of money.
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South-West
In Vastu-related Vedic astrology usage, South-West denotes a directional zone traditionally associated with command, ownership, controlled access, and relationship considerations.
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Surya
Surya is the Vedic astrology term for the Sun, traditionally associated with authority, leadership, vitality, father-related indications, public influence, and the principle of inner light or atma.
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Sutra
In Vedic astrology, a sutra often refers to a concise principle that may guide interpretation across multiple chart situations.
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Swami
In Vedic astrology terminology, Swami commonly refers to the planetary lord or ruler of a house or sign.
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Tenth House
In Vedic astrology, the tenth house is traditionally associated with karma, purposeful action, achievement, reputation, status, and public standing.
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Third House
In Vedic astrology, the third house is traditionally associated with effort, courage, communication, personal initiative, manual skill, competition, and younger siblings.
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Trikona
Trikona generally refers to the trinal houses, especially the first, fifth, and ninth, which are traditionally associated with ease, support, blessings, and the flourishing of a planet's significations in many Vedic a...
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Uchcha
Uchcha is traditionally used for a planet occupying its sign of exaltation, a condition associated with heightened dignity and capacity.
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Vakri
Vakri is a Vedic astrology term for the planetary state commonly known as apparent retrograde motion.
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Vastu
In Vedic astrology, Vastu is treated as a framework for interpreting and adjusting the elemental and symbolic qualities of a home or other place.
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Vivah
Vivah refers to marriage and the marital partnership in Vedic astrology, where it is traditionally examined through factors such as the seventh house, Navamsha, planetary condition, dharma, and electional timing.
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Water
Water is traditionally associated with the Moon, adaptability, receptivity, and particular spatial zones within Vedic astrology- and Vastu-based elemental interpretation.
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Yoga
In Vedic astrology, a yoga is a particular astrological combination or relationship that may carry a traditional interpretive significance.
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Yuti
Yuti generally refers to two planets occupying the same house and being interpreted as a combined planetary relationship.