Doshas in Your Kundli
Doshas are the afflictions Vedic astrology weighs in a birth chart. Here is what each one really means, exactly how it is read from the houses and planets, and the conditions that cancel or soften it — without the fear.
- Mangal Dosha (Manglik)
The "Manglik" placement of Mars that is weighed for marriage timing and harmony — and the many conditions that quietly cancel it.
Major dosha - Kaal Sarp Dosha
When every classical planet falls on one side of the Rahu–Ketu axis, said to bring intensity, delays and karmic lessons — yet often far gentler than its fearsome name suggests.
Major dosha - Shani Sade Sati
Saturn's seven-and-a-half-year passage over your Moon — a maturing, not a curse — read in three distinct phases.
Major Saturn transit - Pitra Dosha
An affliction tied to ancestral karma, read mainly from the Sun and the 9th house of father and forefathers.
Major dosha - Grahan Dosha
The "eclipse" affliction — a luminary shadowed by Rahu or Ketu, touching confidence and emotional steadiness.
Major dosha - Guru Chandal Dosha
Wisdom (Jupiter) entangled with a shadow planet — a test of faith, ethics and guidance that can also sharpen an original mind.
Major dosha - Kemadruma Dosha
A lonely Moon with no planetary neighbours to lean on — and one of the most easily cancelled of all the doshas.
Minor dosha - Gandmool Dosha
A birth-Moon in one of the six sensitive "knot" nakshatras — read by star, not by house.
Minor dosha - Shrapit Dosha
Saturn and Rahu together in one house — read as accumulated karmic debt that asks for patience and steady effort rather than as a fixed fate.
Minor dosha - Vish Yoga (Punarphoo)
Saturn sharing a house with the Moon — a tendency toward emotional heaviness and slow starts that maturity steadies.
Minor dosha - Kalathra Dosha
Affliction to the 7th house of marriage and partnership — read alongside, not instead of, Mangal Dosha.
Minor dosha - Nadi Dosha
The highest-weighted matching koota — a same-Nadi pairing flagged for health and progeny, yet often cancelled.
Compatibility dosha - Daridra Dosha
When the lord of gains slips into a difficult house, said to leak income — usually one factor among many.
Minor dosha
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