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A note on this entry Bhava karaka of the 8th: Saturn. Whole-sign rule: the bhava is the whole sign, so every planet in the same sign as the lagna is in this bhava whatever its degree, and the bhava cusps are the sign boundaries. A Western quadrant house (Placidus, Koch, Campanus, equal) divides the day into arcs instead and can push a planet into a neighbouring house or leave a sign intercepted; the two answers differ and the difference is not a defect. The corrective used by some Jyotish schools is the bhava chalit chart, which re-draws the cusps by the Sripati method. Ayurdaya, the judgement of longevity, is read from the 8th with the lagna and the 8th lord, and the classical methods (Pindayu, Amsayu, Naisargayu) disagree with one another by design - the tradition treats the length of life as a range to be narrowed, not a date to be named.
Alternate Names Randhra Marana Nidhana the eighth bhava the eighth house
Kind Bhava
Sanskrit रन्ध्र
English longevity and death; the eighth house
Nature Panaphara Dusthana Moksha trikona
Karaka Longevity Death Inheritance Sudden events Occult Chronic illness In laws Secrets Research Generative organs Other peoples money Transformation Meaning The eighth bhava is the length of life, death, inheritance, sudden events, the occult and what is hidden. It is the deepest of the dusthanas and the one most feared, but it is also the house of research, of other people's money, and of the transformation that a life undergoes rather than chooses.
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