Eight contributors, seven BAV rows
Understand why “Ashta” refers to eight references even though standard SAV sums seven planetary BAVs.
The eight contributors are Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the Ascendant (Lagna).
The target BAV rows used in the standard raw Sarvashtakavarga are the seven classical planets from Sun through Saturn. Rahu and Ketu are excluded from this profile.
Lagna contributes inside every planetary BAV but is not added as an eighth planetary row to the 337-point SAV used here.
Ashtakavarga is a point-distribution system. The fixed BAV checksum belongs to the rule system; the useful chart-specific information is how those points distribute across the twelve signs.
Read the audit grid before reading the total. Each bindu comes from a contributor and a counted position, so the learner should be able to reproduce why a cell is 0 or 1. SAV is then the sign-wise sum of the seven planetary BAV rows.
How to read it
- Choose the target BAV planet.
- Choose one sign column.
- Audit all eight contributor decisions.
- Verify the planet’s fixed row checksum.
- Use SAV/BAV as context, not as a standalone event prediction.
Key points
- BAV row totals are fixed checksums.
- Distribution across signs is chart-specific.
- SAV = sum of seven planetary BAV rows, not a separate mysterious score.
Do not call a high raw SAV number a guaranteed positive event without the rest of the transit/natal context.
Apply this lesson to a chart
- Open Ashtakavarga Lab.
- Choose one planet and one sign.
- Explain at least two contributor bindu decisions from the audit table.