Tajika Varshaphala (Annual Chart) (太陽返照年運（塔吉卡）)

The Vedic Chart for the Year Ahead

Overview

Tajika Varshaphala is the Vedic system of the ANNUAL horoscope — a fresh chart for each year of life, cast for the exact moment the Sun returns to the sidereal position it held at birth (the Varsha Pravesh, or solar return). Where the birth chart shows the whole life, the annual chart zooms into the twelve months ahead. Its signature pieces are the Muntha (a progressed point that steps forward one sign every year), the Sahams (Tajika sensitive points, the Vedic cousins of the Hellenistic Lots), the five office-bearers who compete to become the year-lord (Varshesha), and the Tajika aspect doctrine borrowed from Perso-Arabic astrology. The word Tajika itself points to that Persian lineage. askTIAN casts the annual chart from the sidereal Sun-return instant — its calculation reproduces B.V. Raman’s own worked example (his 24th-year chart beginning 9 August 1935).

Origin & history

Varshaphala (‘fruit of the year’) is the Tajika branch of Vedic astrology — a body of annual-forecast technique that entered India through Perso-Arabic astrology in the medieval period and was synthesised with Vedic method by authors such as Neelakantha (whose Tajika Neelakanthi is the standard text) and, in modern times, B.V. Raman (‘Varshaphal or The Hindu Progressed Horoscope’). Its aspect doctrine — Ithasala (applying), Ishrafa (separating) and the rest — is directly descended from the Arabic ittiṣāl / inṣirāf of Perso-Arabic annual astrology, making Varshaphala a rare bridge between the Vedic and Hellenistic-Arabic worlds.

askTIAN implements the deterministic core faithfully and is candid about its edges. The Varsha Pravesh is the sidereal Sun return — the moment transiting sidereal Sun regains the natal sidereal Sun, nearest the birthday — and the root-find reproduces Raman’s own 24th-year date (9 August 1935) from his 1912 birth. The Muntha advances the natal Lagna one sign per completed year (degree carried from the natal ascendant), gold-locked to Raman’s example (Aquarius Lagna + 23 years → Capricorn). The Sahams follow the Tajika-Neelakanthi / open-source PyJHora formulas (A−B+C, reversed for a night birth, with the classical +30° whole-sign bracket rule, then reduced mod 360). askTIAN uses the Lahiri ayanamsa for consistency with its other Vedic engines; Raman used his own ‘Raman ayanamsa’ (~2° off), so the return DATE is robust but the annual Lagna degree and Saham longitudes shift with the ayanamsa — stated plainly in the response.

How it works

Give the birth data and the Gregorian year whose annual chart you want. The engine finds the Varsha Pravesh instant by searching for when the sidereal Sun regains its natal longitude near that year’s birthday, then casts the annual chart: the Varsha Lagna (annual ascendant) and the eight grahas in the sidereal zodiac. It advances the Muntha one sign per completed year from the natal Lagna and names its lord. It computes the Sahams — Punya (fortune), Vidya (learning), Putra (children), Vivaha (marriage), Karma (work) and more — applying the day/night reversal (day = the Sun above the horizon at the return) and the +30° normalisation. And it computes the YEAR-LORD (Varshesha): the five office-bearers — the lords of the Muntha, the annual Lagna, the natal Lagna, the Sun’s (day) or Moon’s (night) sign, and the triplicity — are scored by Panchavargeeya Bala and the strongest that aspects the annual Lagna wins (else the Muntha lord). The annual chart is cast at the birthplace by default (Raman’s rule); pass a residence to use the modern relocated convention.

Good for

Use cases

Annual Chart (Varsha Kundali)

Send birth data + a year and receive the Varsha Pravesh instant, the annual ascendant and the eight grahas in the sidereal zodiac.

Muntha for the Year

Get the Muntha sign, its carried degree and its lord — the progressed point whose house colours the year.

The Sahams

Compute the year’s Tajika sensitive points (fortune, learning, children, marriage, work …) with the correct night reversal and +30° rule.

Year-Lord Candidates

Surface the five office-bearers competing for the Varshesha, the starting point of a Tajika year-lord judgment.

Key terms

Varsha Pravesh
The solar-return instant: the moment the transiting SIDEREAL Sun regains its natal longitude, nearest the birthday. The annual chart is cast for this moment.
Varsha Lagna
The ascendant of the annual chart — the rising sign at the Varsha Pravesh, cast at the birthplace (Raman) or the current residence (modern school).
Muntha
A progressed point that advances one sign per completed year of life from the natal Lagna (degree carried from it); its house in the annual chart colours the year.
Saham
A Tajika sensitive point, computed as A−B+C (reversed at night) with a +30° whole-sign correction — the Vedic counterpart of the Hellenistic Lots (Punya, Vidya, Putra …).
Varshesha
The year-lord, chosen among five office-bearers by Panchavargeeya Bala, with the rule that the winner must aspect the annual Lagna (else the Muntha lord). askTIAN computes it and returns the scored candidates.
Panchavargeeya Bala
The five-fold strength (Kshetra 30 / Uccha ÷9 max-20 / Hadda 15 / Drekkana 10 / Navamsha 5, total ÷ 4) that ranks the office-bearers for the year-lordship; computed here, with the Uccha arithmetic matching Raman’s worked example.
Ithasala / Ishrafa
The Tajika applying / separating aspects (from the Arabic ittiṣāl / inṣirāf), judged by planetary speed and the deeptamsa orbs; the Tajika-aspect layer is deferred here.

API

The askTIAN Varshaphala endpoint casts the Vedic annual chart from birth data + a target year: it finds the Varsha Pravesh (the sidereal Sun-return instant, which reproduces B.V. Raman’s own worked example), then returns the Varsha Lagna, the eight annual grahas, the Muntha (sign, carried degree and lord — gold-locked to Raman’s Aquarius+23→Capricorn), the Sahams (Tajika sensitive points, with the correct night reversal and +30° whole-sign rule), and the YEAR-LORD (Varshesha) — the five office-bearers scored by Panchavargeeya Bala, the strongest that aspects the annual Lagna, else the Muntha lord. Lahiri sidereal (Raman’s own ayanamsa differs ~2°, so the return date is robust but the annual-Lagna and Saham degrees shift with the ayanamsa — stated in the response). The annual chart is cast at the birthplace by default with a current-residence option. Honesty rails flag that the full Tajika-aspect judgment (Ithasala/Ishrafa) and the Mudda Daśā are a later layer, and that the ayanamsa shifts the Panchavargeeya-Bala scores. A best-effort LLM reading is returned in parsable sections; set interpretation:false for structured data only. Symbolic Vedic predictive technique for reflection — not a validated predictor, and not medical, legal or financial advice.

Endpoint: POST /trpc/varshaphala.chart — 7 TIAN Points. See the API documentation and Playground.