Re. Some info on karta required

September 19, 2002

Om Gurave Namah

Dear Rama,

Thanks for the mail. I'll try to answer of what little i know. Am sure Guru's

and learned members will help us out.

1. What's the significance of karta in a chart?Karta by definition means doer or

a person who acts This is funny. In Kannada (my local language), karta roughly

translates to an undertaker!! For example, should I die and should he light my

pyre, my son would be called karta. In any case, my question still remains.

What's his significance? I mean, the karta of a horoscope does *what*?

Karta is a doer. He is the person who brings in benefits (materialistically or

otherwise) during his periods or sub-periods.

2. Again, you've left it tantalizingly just short. After considering the

ownership, then what? If Saturn is in Pisces aspecting the Virgo asc, how do I

interpret what the karta does, seeing his mtk that happens to be a

trik-cum-upachaya?

Saturn aspecting lagna does qualifies him to be a karta. Of what little i know,

saturn will bring in benefits. For example if saturn would have been a yogada,

then his benefits would have been greater than saturn just being the karta. In

other words, Yogada gives more, karta the least in that order.

3.No I meant whether there can be different kartas for the different lagnas in the same chart.

I had written that karta is that any planet who conjoins or owns or aspects

lagna OR HL OR GL. This by itself means that there can be many karta's in a

chart. For example in your chart Lagna lord is Sun. He is a karta. At the same

time Sun conjoins GL. He is a Yogada. Merc the lord of GL conjons Sun. Merc is

a yogada. Merc is the lord of GL, so he is a karta too.!

In essence i guess is the periods of yogada, karta etc bring in success to the native.

Regds

Hari.

vedic astrology, Ramapriya D <ramapriya_d> wrote:> > Dear

Hari,> Katti Narahari wrote:Om Gurave Namah>

> Dear Rama, Let me attempt this. My comments

in Red Below- ramapriya_d To:

vedic astrology Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:17 PMSubject:

[vedic astrology] Some info on karta required> Hi,> > I've a few questions on

karta:> > 1. What's the significance of karta in a chart?Karta by definition

means doer or a person who acts This is funny. In Kannada (my local language),

karta roughly translates to an undertaker!! For example, should I die and should

he light my pyre, my son would be called karta. In any case, my question still

remains. What's his significance? I mean, the karta of a horoscope does

*what*?> > > 2. Can there be different kartas for the Hora, Ghatika and Janma >

lagna, or is the karta for a chart?> Any planet that conjoins / aspects lagna,

OR Hora Lagna OR Ghatika Lagna qualifies to be a karta. Apart from aspects

(Rasi aspects only) and conjuntion, ownership is to be considered too. Again,

you've left it tantalizingly just short. After considering the ownership, then

what? If Saturn is in Pisces aspecting the Virgo asc, how do I interpret what

the karta does, seeing his mtk that happens to be a trik-cum-upachaya?> > 3. If

more than one planet aspects/conjoins either of the 3 special > ascendants, does

the one with the highest longitude get to be karta? I assume you are talking of

Yogada. If so, Any planet who conjoins/aspects/owns HL AND lagna OR GL and

Lagna is a yogada. Yogada means the planet who gives a yoga in a horoscope.

This way you can have more than one yogada as long as the planet fulfills the

above condition(s). Thus checking longitudes are out of the question. No I

meant whether there can be different kartas for the different lagnas in the

same chart. I'd appreciate it if some guru spends a few minutes on this.> >

Ramapriya> hubli@v... i am correct and this helps. Regds Hari Warm regards,

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September 19, 2002

Your view, that a karta will always do good to the native, is thought-provoking.

I know I'm driving blind here but something tells me not to agree with that just

yet. Despite the absence of specific literature with me to prove/disprove

myself, I think that by virtue of its placement, a karta will do its stuff,

i.e. if it's a functional malefic, it'll be successful in creating trouble. I

think it's some kind of positional advantage to affect the native's self in

either a good or bad way, depending on the lordship. Moreover, why would

Saturn, Mercury and Mars all have their marana sthanas at angles from the

lagna? If Saturn is in the ascendant for a Taurean, I can't see how he'll do

good to the native while destroying the effects of the 9th and 10th houses!

There must be a little more about this than meets my eye yet.

Warm regards,

Ramahubli (AT) vsnl (DOT) com

PS: So the 'undertaker' version of karta is correct then, huh?

Katti Narahari wrote: