
A divisional chart, or varga, divides every sign of the zodiac into smaller parts and maps each part to a sign, giving each planet and the ascendant a sign in that chart. Vedic astrologers read each varga for one area of life alongside the birth chart (D1): the D10 Dasamsa for career, the D7 Saptamsa for children, the D9 Navamsa for marriage.
Use the time from your birth certificate if you have it. The Lagna of the finer charts changes every few minutes, so they depend most on the birth time.
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The Shodasavarga, the sixteen charts of the Parashari tradition: D1, D2, D3, D4, D7, D9, D10, D12, D16, D20, D24, D27, D30, D40, D45 and D60, plus the D6 Shashthamsa and the D8 Ashtamsa. Pick one to see it in full.
The chart's Lagna, its lord, and every planet's sign and house, with houses counted from that chart's own Lagna. Switch between North and South Indian styles.
For each of the nine grahas: its sign in the birth chart and its sign in the chart you picked, with the planets that keep their D1 sign marked.
For how many minutes earlier and later each chart's Lagna stays the same, and a note when a slightly different birth time would change a sign.
One table with the Lagna and the nine grahas across every chart, so a planet's signs can be read across the vargas.
Links to our articles on the D10, D2, D8, D12, D20 and D60 charts, and on the planets in your D10 where we have one.
The ascendant moves through a whole sign in about two hours, so the D1 Lagna rarely depends on a few minutes. A varga cuts each sign into smaller parts: a D10 part is 3° wide and the ascendant crosses it in about 12 minutes; a D60 part is 0.5° wide and takes about 2 minutes. The finer the chart, the more its Lagna, and every house number in it, depends on an exact birth time.
The result shows, for each chart, for how many minutes earlier and later its Lagna stays the same. For the D24, D27, D40, D45 and D60, where it changes within about 5 minutes, read the chart only with a birth time you trust, or after birth-time rectification by an astrologer.
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Every sign in every chart comes from DKSCORE's chart engine, the same one behind the DKSCORE app, using the Parashari rules for each varga. This page only draws and compares what the engine returns.
Each sign is divided into parts of this size: D2 Hora: 15°; D3 Drekkana: 10°; D4 Chaturthamsa: 7°30′; D6 Shashthamsa: 5°; D7 Saptamsa: about 4°17′; D8 Ashtamsa: 3°45′; D9 Navamsa: 3°20′; D10 Dasamsa: 3°; D12 Dwadasamsa: 2°30′; D16 Shodasamsa: 1°52′30″; D20 Vimsamsa: 1°30′; D24 Chaturvimsamsa: 1°15′; D27 Saptavimsamsa: 1°06′40″; D30 Trimsamsa: 5°, 5°, 8°, 7° and 5°; D40 Khavedamsa: 45′; D45 Akshavedamsa: 40′; D60 Shashtiamsa: 30′.
The D30 is the one chart with unequal parts. In odd signs the parts are 5°, 5°, 8°, 7° and 5°, ruled by Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus; in even signs the order is reversed.
The sign of the ascendant in a chart is that chart's Lagna, and its houses are whole signs counted from it, the same way D1 houses are counted from the Lagna.
The D9 here is the same navamsa as on the Navamsa calculator, which adds vargottama planets, dignity in the D9 and articles on each navamsa placement.
Positions come from a sidereal chart with the Lahiri ayanamsa for your date, time and place of birth.
For what the vargas are and how astrologers read them with the birth chart, read our guide.
Articles from Jyotish Medium on the D10 and the other vargas.