षोड्स वर्ग : By Shri AV Pathi Chennai ( Astrology & Remedies F.B.Page)

SHODASAVARGAS :: There are 16 Vargas (Degree Divisional Charts) including RASI CHAKRA, and the Navansha. Rasi Chakra is also considered and included to be a Varga. (Mantheswara advocates using 10 Varga Charts, where as Parasara uses 16 Divisional charts). The total list consists as: 1. Rasi Chakra – individual comprehensive birth chart; 2. Hora – wealth; 3. Drekkana – happiness through siblings / effort and progress in general; 4. Chathurthamsa – fortune; 5. Septhamsa – Children, their attention/contribution in happiness to the natal; 6. Navansha – married life; 7. Dasamsa – career and status; 8. Dwadasamsa – parents and heredity; 9. Shodasamsa – happiness through ownership/conveyance/immovable properties; 10. Vimsamsa – spiritual life; 11. Chathurvimsamsa – academic achievements; 12. Bhamsa – Strength and weakness/body and mind; 13. Trimsamsa – good or bad luck and identifications on quality of natal/particularly the chastity grade of individual; 14. Khavedamsa – auspicious and in auspicious effects; 15. Akshavedamsa – general indications/growth in life; 16. Sashtiamsa – general growth of progress. (HORA SASTRA by Parasara). Each of these charts represents different phase of life adding insight uncovering many subtleties, which my not surface in the Rasi Chakra study alone. ……….Pathi