Doshas
What a dosha actually is
A dosha is a configuration classical texts flag as a difficulty - and almost every one comes with stated conditions that cancel it. Those conditions are on every page here, above the remedies.
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Pitra dosha पितृ दोष
A pattern of afflictions to the Sun and the 9th house, read in tradition as unfinished ancestral obligation.
Nadi dosha नाड़ी दोष
The matching fault that costs the most points - both partners sharing the same Nadi, worth 8 of the 36 gunas.
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Mangal dosha
Mars in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th house - the matching concern with the longest list of exemptions.
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Every planet hemmed between Rahu and Ketu. Common, dramatic-sounding, and highly dependent on which axis it forms on.
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Saturn's seven-and-a-half-year passage around your natal Moon. A transit, not a birth-chart fault.
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