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Marana Karaka Sthana — Full Table & Dasha Effects

The house in which each planet is most uncomfortable, in any chart: Sun 12th, Moon 8th, Mars 7th, Mercury 4th, Jupiter 3rd, Venus 6th, Saturn 1st, Rahu 9th; Ketu has none. PVNR gives a picture for each, such as the priest handed the weapons and the cheat put in charge of a temple. In the dasha of a planet in its Marana Karaka Sthana, the houses it owns and the house it sits in both suffer. Applied to the student's Saturn in lagna of the Rashi chart, and to Jupiter, 7th lord of his Dasamsa, in the 3rd, which makes success in business unlikely.

Key principle

All these Marana Karaka Sthanas are places where the planet is very uncomfortable.

Example Chart

Example chart — D-10 lagna Virgo, rectified (1949)
Jun 13, 1949 · about 10:52 AM IST (3 minutes before the given time) · South India
Two cases in one chart. Rashi: Saturn, lord of the 6th and 7th, is in Leo lagna — the 1st house is Saturn's Marana Karaka Sthana. D-10 (Virgo lagna): Jupiter, lord of the 4th and 7th, is in Scorpio, the 3rd — Jupiter's Marana Karaka Sthana.
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Marana Karaka Sthana (Death-Causing Position)

For each planet there is one house, in any chart, Rashi or divisional, where it is most uncomfortable. That house is its Marana Karaka Sthana, the death-causing station.

PlanetMarana Karaka SthanaPVNR's picture
Sun12th houseThe king put in the house of giving up and renunciation. Not his instinct.
Moon8th houseThe karaka of peace and happiness, who has no enemies, told to give anxiety and trouble
Mars7th houseThe warrior and karaka of celibacy (Hanuman) told to bring people together. He can only do it at gunpoint.
Mercury4th houseNo picture given. "You may have read 7th house in some books, but I was taught that it is actually 4th house."
Jupiter3rd houseThe priest put in charge of boldness and weapons. The only weapon he knows is the Gayatri Mantra.
Venus6th houseThe karaka of enjoyment in the house of celibacy
Saturn1st houseThe giver of ill health told to look after health and vitality
Rahu9th houseA cheat put in charge of a temple and its daily rituals
Ketunone—

"All these Marana Karaka Sthanas are places where the planet is very uncomfortable."

Effect

  • In the dasha of a planet in MKS there is trouble for the houses it owns and for the house it sits in. It struggles so hard with the house it occupies that it does justice to neither.

Saturn in Lagna of the Native's Rashi Chart

  • Saturn is in Leo Lagna: MKS in the Rashi chart
  • He owns the 6th and 7th: service and business, service and wife
  • Asked to give health, he gives neither good health nor good results for the 6th and 7th

Jupiter in the 3rd of D-10

  • Jupiter, 4th and 7th lord from Virgo, is in the 3rd: MKS
  • 7th lord in MKS → the native is unlikely to excel in business (Part 7)

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