Divisional charts: D9 and D10
Cut every sign into equal parts and a new chart appears: the navamsha (D9) and the dashamsha (D10).
- 5-minute lesson
- Basic course: Jyotish Shishya
- Vedic astrology
- Charts within the chart
- Navamshas are padas
A first look at the lesson
A divisional chart (varga) cuts every sign into equal parts and builds a new chart from them. D1 is the whole sign. D9, the navamsha, cuts each sign into 9 parts of 3°20′; D10, the dashamsha, into 10 parts of 3°.
A navamsha is 3°20′, exactly one pada, so the 108 padas are the 108 navamshas. The nine navamshas of a sign begin from a set sign: fire signs from Aries, earth signs from Capricorn, air signs from Libra, water signs from Cancer.
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More lessons on this subject
- The birth chart (D1)A birth chart is the sky held still at the moment and place of birth: houses, signs and grahas.
- North, South and East Indian chartsOne chart, three drawings: houses fixed in the North; signs fixed in the South and East.
- Lagna chart and Moon chartThe same grahas counted from the Moon: the Moon chart, read beside the Lagna chart.
- The Panchang in briefFive limbs that describe a day: tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana.
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