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Explainers with their rules shown, including the exceptions. No remedies, nothing to buy.
Doshas
- What is mangal dosha? What Mangal Dosha is, which text it actually comes from, and the exception rules that cancel it — including the ones most sources leave out.
- What is Sade Sati? Shani's passage over your Moon — why the span is not exactly seven and a half years, and what classical sources say reduces its intensity.
- What is Kaal Sarp Dosha? What the Rahu–Ketu axis condition claims, what our engine actually checks for it, and where its classical support runs out.
Dashas & timing
Chart basics
- What is the difference between lagna, Moon sign, and Sun sign? Why your app, your kundli and a Western horoscope can each name a different sign — and which one a chart reading is actually built on.
- What is a rashi in Vedic astrology? What a rashi is, why your Moon rashi and your Sun sign are usually different, and which one Indian tradition means when it says "your sign".
- What is a nakshatra in Vedic astrology? The 27 lunar mansions, how your birth nakshatra is fixed by the Moon's longitude to the minute, and what it is used for in a chart.
- What is navamsa (D9)?
- What is Ashtakavarga? The counting system behind the bindus, why every chart totals exactly 337, and a fixed worked example you can check against your own software.
- What does retrograde (vakri) mean in ePandit? What a planet turning retrograde is geometrically, when it is real motion and when it is perspective, and what tradition reads into it.
- What ayanamsa does ePandit use? The difference between the sidereal and tropical zodiacs, why Indian astrology uses Lahiri, and how a 24-degree offset moves every sign in a chart.
Panchang
- What is panchang in ePandit? The five limbs of the Hindu day, what each one is computed from, and what we show when a value cannot be computed.
- What is rahu kaal? How Rahu Kaal is derived from sunrise and sunset, and why we publish the window without telling you to avoid it.
- What is Krishna Janmashtami? Which source supplies which part of the Janmashtami tradition, the chart B. V. Raman reconstructed, and why the festival is decided at midnight rather than at sunrise.