Dhuma
Dhuma is the first of the five Sun-derived upagrahas: add 133 degrees 20 minutes to the Sun's longitude and the result is Dhuma, the point of smoke. It is malefic by nature and afflicts the bhava it occupies, and it is read in the classical lists of the evils a chart can carry.
The five Sun-derived points are computed from one another in a closed chain, so they are not independent: Dhuma + 226 degrees 40 minutes gives Vyatipata, Vyatipata + 180 gives Parivesha, 360 minus Parivesha gives Indrachapa, and Indrachapa + 16 degrees 40 minutes gives Upaketu. BPHS ch. 3 gives the chain and ch. 25 reads each of the five through the twelve bhavas.
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- Alternate Names
- DhoomaDhumraSmoke
Nature and meaning
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- Concept
- Sanskrit
- धूम
- English
- smoke; the first of the Sun-derived upagrahas
- Meaning
Dhuma is the first of the five Sun-derived upagrahas: add 133 degrees 20 minutes to the Sun's longitude and the result is Dhuma, the point of smoke. It is malefic by nature and afflicts the bhava it occupies, and it is read in the classical lists of the evils a chart can carry.
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