Pancha Mahapurusha Yoga
The five mahapurusha yogas are the classical catalogue of human greatness: each pairs a planet with the house of its own strength. Only the five non-luminary tara grahas form them; the Sun and Moon are excluded by definition, while the nodes and outer planets are outside this five-planet catalogue.
BPHS ch. 36's list of yogas runs from Gajakesari and Amala through the Lakshmi and Kalanidhi yogas and does not name the five mahapurusha yogas; they are given in Phaladeepika and Jataka Parijata, and the corpus records the attribution rather than assigning them to Parashara. The five have their own entries in this file.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- the five great-person yogasMahapurusha yogas
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Yoga
- Sanskrit
- पञ्चमहापुरुष
- English
- the five great-person combinations
- Meaning
The five mahapurusha yogas are the classical catalogue of human greatness: each pairs a planet with the house of its own strength. Only the five non-luminary tara grahas form them; the Sun and Moon are excluded by definition, while the nodes and outer planets are outside this five-planet catalogue.
Details
- Formation
One of the five non-luminary grahas - Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn - in its own sign or its exaltation sign, placed in a kendra (1, 4, 7 or 10) from the lagna. The five results are named for the planet that forms them: Ruchaka (Mars), Bhadra (Mercury), Hamsa (Jupiter), Malavya (Venus) and Sasa (Saturn).
- Fruit
Each of the five makes a 'great person' marked by the character of its planet: a commander for Mars, a scholar for Mercury, a sage for Jupiter, a connoisseur of beauty for Venus, an austere authority for Saturn. The tradition says the native is a ruler or the equal of one, and the five are read as five kinds of eminence rather than five degrees of it.
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