ABOUT THE BOOK The first book on annual horoscopy or Varshaphala (the Tajika system) which is fully illustrated © The sixteen Tajika yogas which form the backbone of successful predictions on the basis of annual ho early exp scopy have been m © Such speciatis Muntha, the Sahams, reas of the Tajika system as the rshesha, the Tri Pataki Chakra, the Ilbeen dealt with in details © Covers almost all the important questions a modern man asks in the h personal and social life. tic whirl of his professional, © To be able to see with clarity how a particular year will be for you is to see the fines along which ‘you should plan your activities, postpone some of them, getmore deeply involved in some of them © What you need is a clear direction, clarity of vision and planning the shifting priorities year after year. ‘This is what an accurately cast annual chart can do toyou. Dr. KS. Charak FRCS. (UK) Department of Surgery i ESI Hospital Jhilil, Delbi-110 095 Honorary Editor of the bi-monthly Vac utrolgy Author of + appreciated A Textbook of Trt dirt:fedic Astrology Series A Textbook of Varshaphala Vedic Technique of the Tajika or Annual Horoscopy Dr. K S Charak MS. (SURGERY, FRES (U9 PublicationsA Textbook of Varshaphala © De. KS. Chank All eights reserved, including the right to reprodace this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Fire Edition: September 1993, Second Edition + August 1996 Reprinted January 199 Reprinted + July 2002 ISBN 81-901008-1-5 Price: Rs, 200- US$ 20 £14 Publihed by + UMA Publications 72 Gagan. Vibar, Delhi- 110051, INDIA Phone: 91-11-2243563 Designed and Printed by SYSTEMS VISION A199 Olds Ind, Avea-I, New Dethi-110020, INDIA, PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The first edition of this work on Varshaphala has been aeclaimed the world over as the most systematic, lucid and comprehensive account of the Vedic system of annual horoscopy. ‘This happened to be the first elaborate and easily understood work on this vexed subject. While wé have never doubted the extreme dependability of this system, very heartening response has been received from the generally cautious western reader as well. The general format of this second edition has not been materially altered. Only minor changes have been incorporated here and there. Some comments have been added in the discussion on planetary strengths, Gopal Agarwal wha designed the cover page of the first edition has redesigned it with very slight but subtle modifications. Rajeev Jhanji has been kind to help bring out this edition in its present form. Dr. K S CHARAK 72 Gagan Vihar Detbi-110 051 (India) uly 24, 1996 Phone : 91-11-224 3563PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Ever since I started teaching astrology in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, I felt the need to systematise my own knowledge and to organise it lesson by lesson for the students. Since I have been doing various branches of astrology now for over twenty years, I have gone through numerous books on the subject, reading and re-reading many of them, and find one essential difference between our method of teaching astrology and the style of writing in the books available. Since we face students with a high educational background (doctors, engineers, businessmen, lawyers, bureaucrats, retired officials, etc.), it becomes absolutely necessary for us to illustrate through actual horoscopes all the astrological points being taught, clarified and elaborated. To do it regularly, as we have to in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, is a much tougher task than reading a paper inva seminar, answering some questions and later forgetting all about it. The available astrological taxts are sadly deficient in actual horoscopic illustrations. The subject of this book, the Tajika or the annual horoscopy, hhas been rather overwhelmingly dominated by the natal horoscopy. Recently, however, the need to resort to annual horoscopy has been increasing in our industrial sociery where career planning, travel planning, work planning and job planning xre done within a specified time-table of one to, say, five years Tn which of the next five years it would be more fruitful to start a venture is a question many people ask. ‘This question is renerally answered on the basis of the birth horoscope, the dasha periods and transits: The question is, whether such pinpointed guidance and counselling can be further refined and put in sharp focus astrologically? As a doctor, I am accustomed to employing series of tests for the diagnosis of a disease. As an astrologer, it appeals to me to foresee the same event by employing different astrological techniques to the birth chazt, like the Vimshottari dasha, the Jairnini Chara dasha and, where necessary, even the Ashtalavarga. 1 have not seen a single instance where what is promised in the birth chart is not more clearly reflected in the ‘Tajika concerned. The Tajika takes care of all those areas that are covered by the natal horoscopy. Thus it can revea! about health and disease, marriage, child birth, income, expenditure, promotions, transfer, travel, sse and fall in career, imprisonment, death, etc, It is true to say that the ajika cannot give what the birth horoscope does not promise. [tis truer to say that the Tajika reveals, with greater clarity, the year in which the promise of the birth horoscope will be fulfilled. The Tajika is thus complimentary, supplemen- tary and confirmatory in nature. What the Tatika reveals is vital not vast a5 the hirth chart docs, pivotal though not & plethora of details; and all this within the rigid time-frame of one year. Tr is an astrologer’s precision instrument. The Tajika should be invariably made use of for giving important predictions though only after 2 thorough examination of the birth chart ‘An incidental advantage of thé Talika could sometimes be to correct someone's birth time marginally. While this book has been planned as explained in the summary at the end, itis relevant to point ro a couple of ticklish areas, among others, which had to be tackled. ‘The first was to explain the sixteen well-known ‘Tajika yogas withwut sshich the entire edifice of the annual horoscopic reading collapses. “These yogas have been dealt with in two ways: first, through definition, illustration and exhaustive comments, and latez, through tabulation of afi these in a chart form for an eaxy and clear understanding. No serious student of annual horascopy can afford to miss these yogas as they reveal remarkably the nature of results that can be expected. Needless to say that this calls for a correct easting of the antvaal chat. f'n a particular year the santa lagna falls an the borderline between to rasbit, one has t0 be extra careful. Sirilarly, cabere the correat degrees of planets indicate @ dappy Etbasale, any miscalculation may make it look atherwise While’ there are some computer programmes that providevi accurate annual horoscopes, one most be cautious in accepting ‘any computer-cast chart as there are numerous computers which have been incorrectly programmed, and provide wrong data. ‘Another difficulty was to obtain the right horoscopes with specific events of specific years for illustrations. Fortunately our individual collection and mutual sharing of data helped overcome this problem. This book covers all the relevant aspects of annual horoscopy and, at places, suggests areas of further research. It has been profusely illustrated. It is hoped that it effectively fills a long- felt void in the field of annual horoscopy. The lst of illustrations appended in the beginning may be profitably gone through only after going through the relevant text, ‘The quotations for the various chapters have been taken from ‘The Vedic Experience by Raimundo Panikkar, and The Flute Calls Sui by Difip Kumar Roy and Indira Devi. September 1, 1993 Dr K S CHARAK Preface to the Second Edition CONTENTS Preface to the First Edition List of Illustrations L I. Introduetion : Varshaphala; solar year; the Tajik system; special feutures of the Tajika; the Tajika aspects; planetary relations in the Tajika; sex of planets; lord of the year; yogas; Sahams; the ‘Muntha; the ‘Tri-patald; relation between the annual chart and the birth chart. General Considerations : Anatomy of the chart, the north and the south Indian charts; the houses; significance of the houses; the planets; the zodiac; the rashis or signs; characteristics of the rashis planetary lordships; benefic and malefic plane natural planetary relations; exaltation and debili- tation; Moolatrikona signs; aspects; combustion and retrogression; directions; significations of planets; the nakshatras, the vargas. Casting the Annual Chart: The Solar cycle; Varsha-pravesha; Dhruvanka; preparing the annual chart; example of a birth chart; cusps of houses and longitudes of planets in the annual chart; Varsha- pravesha by the ancient method annual chart for subsequent year. 10 4