Jaimini Essentials: Karakas & Arudhas · Gurukul Plus
Atmakaraka & Karakamsa
The graha that leads the chart, and where it lands in the navamsa.
This chapter is part of Gurukul Plus
The foundational curriculum — grahas, rashis, bhavas, nakshatras, dashas and how to read a chart with them — is free to read here and free to practise in the app. Jaimini Essentials: Karakas & Arudhas is one of the advanced chapters, and its teaching text comes with Plus.
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- The Atmakaraka
- The highest-degree graha: the chart's central significator of the self, whose themes the person tends to take most personally.
- Karakamsa
- The sign the Atmakaraka occupies in the navamsa, read as a starting point in the D9. The 12th from it is the app's ishta devata pointer.