KaraNa is 6 degrees of distance between the sun and moon. In other
words the KaraNa is half a tithi. There are two KaraNa(s) in each tithi. In total there are eleven KaraNa(s) that rotate through the 30 tithi(s) that make up the lunar month.
KaraNa Lord Deities
1 Bava Indra 2 BAlava BrahmA 3 KOlava SUrya NArAyaNa 4 TEtila SUrya Deva 5 Gara Prithvi Devi 6 Vanija Lakshmi Devi 7 ViSTi Yama Deva 8 Shakuni Kaliyuga Deva 9 ChatuSpada Rudra 10 Naga NAga Deva 11 KinstuGna Pawana Deva
KARAN PHAL 1) BALA KARANA: A person born in this Karana is lusty, kind hearted, endowed with beauty and has a pleasant nature, is a scholar, fortunate and is wealthy.
2) BAALAV KARANA: A person born in this Karana is brave,
sensualist, poet, charitable and intelligent.
3) KAULAVA KARANA: A person born in this Karana is loved by
everybody, independent and a soft talker.
4) TAITILA KARANA: A person born in this Karana is tender and
delicate, blessed with beauty, proficient in various arts, an excellent orator, intelligent but has shifty eyes.
5) GARA KARANA: A person born in this Karana is benevolent,
respectable, discriminative, and clever, defeats his enemies, generous and is blessed with beauty. 6) VANIJA KARANA: A person born in this Karana is proficient in art, ever smiling, has knowledge and makes profit in business.
7) VISHTI KARANA: A person born in this Karana is blessed with
beauty, restless, powerful, a winner and sleeps too much.
8) SHAKUNEE KARANA: A person born in this Karana is efficient in
knowledge of scriptures, ever alert, fortunate and has knowledge of the auspicious moments.
9) CHATUSPADA KARANA:The person born in this Karana lacks
virtuosity, incapable of accumulating wealth, has a frail and weak body, and is engaged in rearing animals.
10) NAAGA KARANA: A person born in this Karana is of evil nature,
restless and unsteady, wicked, has excessive anger, and spoils his family's reputation.
11) KINSTUGHNA KARANA: A person born in this Karana treats his
friends and enemies alike and is full of lust and weak.