Upagraha
Upagrahas are the non-luminous ('aprakasha') grahas: points computed from the Sun's or Saturn's position, with no body and no orbit, which afflict the house they fall in. There are two families - the five derived from the Sun (Dhuma, Vyatipata, Parivesha, Indrachapa and Upaketu) and the Saturn-derived Gulika and.
They have no dasha, no sign of their own, no gem and no deity in ordinary practice; what they have is the power to spoil a house, and the tradition reads them as a second, shadow layer over the chart. A third family - the kala upagrahas (Kaala, Mrityu, Artha Prahara, Yama Ghantaka and Gulika) computed from the day-lord and the eightfold division of the day - is given in the same chapters and is not catalogued here as separate entries; BPHS ch. 3 and ch. 25 are the source for all of them, and ch. 25 reads each in the twelve bhavas.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Sub-planetaprakasha grahathe non-luminous grahas
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- उपग्रह
- English
- sub-planet; a computed shadow point
- Meaning
Upagrahas are the non-luminous ('aprakasha') grahas: points computed from the Sun's or Saturn's position, with no body and no orbit, which afflict the house they fall in. There are two families - the five derived from the Sun (Dhuma, Vyatipata, Parivesha, Indrachapa and Upaketu) and the Saturn-derived Gulika and Mandi, computed from the division of the day or night into eight parts.
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