Free Pushkar Navamsa and Pushkar Bhaga Calculator

Enter your birth date, time and place above and this free calculator shows whether your Moon, your rising degree or any planet stands in a pushkar navamsa or a pushkar bhaga, the parts of each sign that the tradition calls pushkara. For each point you see its sign and degree, its navamsa in that sign and the two pushkar navamsas of the sign, then the pushkar degree of the sign, whether the point falls inside it, and how far it is from the whole-degree mark.

How it works

Pushkar navamsa. Each sign is cut into nine navamsas of 3°20′. Vidyamadhaviyam (Samjnadhyaya, verse 18), with Vishnu Sharma’s Muhurta Dipika commentary in R. Shama Sastry’s edition (Mysore, 1923, pp. 30 and 31), names two of them in each sign as pushkara:

The calculator finds the navamsa of the rising degree and of each planet within its sign, counted from the start of the sign, and marks those that fall in one of the two pushkar navamsas of that sign. The navamsa sign it shows is the same one our navamsa calculator gives.

Pushkar bhaga. Jataka Parijata (ch. 1, sloka 58, in V. Subrahmanya Sastri’s translation of 1932) gives one pushkar degree for each sign:

The verse names these degrees for the Moon and calls them auspicious when a muhurta, a birth or similar matters are weighed. This page applies the same degrees to the rising sign and the other planets, as many modern tables do, and marks the Moon’s row as the one the verse speaks of directly.

The calculator works out the sidereal positions at your birth (Lahiri ayanamsa, from the NASA JPL DE440 tables) and your rising degree, and compares each with the pushkar navamsas and the pushkar degree of its sign.

Reading the result

A navamsa is counted from the start of the sign: the 7th navamsa of Aries runs from 20°00′ to 23°20′ and the 9th from 26°40′ to 30°00′. A point inside either span is marked as in a pushkar navamsa. Two navamsas in every nine are pushkar, so finding one is ordinary: of 300 sample births we checked, 278 had the rising degree or at least one planet in a pushkar navamsa.

A degree is counted the way the texts count it: a planet at 20°15′ is in its 21st degree, so the 21st degree of Aries runs from 20°00′ to 21°00′. A point inside that span is marked as in its pushkar bhaga. The last column gives the distance from the whole-degree mark, 21°00′ for Aries, for readers who take the number as a point.

The Moon moves through a degree in about two hours and through a navamsa in about six, and the rising degree moves faster, so these rows depend closely on the birth time. Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu stay in one degree for days.

Where traditions differ

For the pushkar degree, two things differ. First, how to read the number: as the degree that ends at it, as this page does, or as a point with a small allowance either side, which the last column lets you apply. Second, which list to use. The same verse of Vidyamadhaviyam that names the pushkar navamsas also gives pushkar degrees, one for each group of signs in trine, and its commentary reads them as the 21st degree in Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, the 14th in Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn, the 24th in Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, and the 7th in Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. That set agrees with Jataka Parijata only for Aries, Taurus, Libra and Capricorn. This page keeps the Jataka Parijata degrees for the pushkar bhaga, names both, and uses Vidyamadhaviyam for the pushkar navamsas.

Pushkar navamsa is not defined in every classical book: C. S. Patel’s Navamsa in Astrology (1997, ch. IV) cites this passage of Vidyamadhaviyam and notes that no standard book defines pushkar navamsa. So other tables may differ, and if your tradition follows one, trust it.

What it does not do

It does not promise anything from a pushkar degree, and it does not mark a chart without one as lacking. In the verse the pushkar degrees are a help when choosing a time, which is why they matter most for a muhurta; the muhurat finder chooses days by the rules of Muhurta Chintamani.

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