The annual chart by the Tajika classics: an honest balance of the year's forces, and the solar-return moment accurate to the arc-second.
The Vedic counterpart of a solar return: the chart cast for the exact moment the Sun comes back to its natal position.
Every year the Sun returns to exactly the position it held at your birth. The chart cast for that moment is called Varsha Pravesh — in Sanskrit, "the entry of the year".
It is not a "birthday chart" — the return may fall a day before or after your birthday. The precision of the calculation is critical.
Tajika Jyotish is a branch of Vedic astrology devoted to annual forecasting. It has its own yogas (Ithasala, Ishrafa, Nakta and others), the Muntha system and its own planetary periods (Mudda dasha).
Dharmika calculates all 16 Tajika yogas and shows their influence on each sphere of life.
A four-minute error in the solar-return moment can shift the lagna (the rising sign) of the annual chart. That changes the whole interpretation. Dharmika uses the Newton-Raphson method, accurate to 0.001 of an arc-second.
A full analysis of the annual chart by the Tajika method.
An iterative numerical method for finding the exact moment the Sun returns to its natal longitude. Accuracy: 0.001 of an arc-second. Swiss Ephemeris DE441.
A full calculation of every Tajika yoga of the annual chart, interpreted by sphere of life.
The planetary periods of the annual chart. Each planet rules a stretch of the year. Knowing the periods shows when exactly the year's tendencies unfold.
A progressive point, moving one sign a year. Muntha's position in the annual chart and its aspects are a key factor in the Tajika analysis.
Sensitive points calculated for each sphere of life: Punya saham (merit), Vidya saham (knowledge), Vivaha saham (marriage) and others.
An annual chart alone says little. The Tajika school reads the year through planetary strengths, the Lord of the Year and the periods — all computed from the primary source, the Tajika-Nilakanthi, rather than from summaries of it.
Five adhikaris: the lords of the natal and annual lagnas, of Muntha, the trirashipa and the lord of the Sun's sign by day or the Moon's by night. The Lord of the Year is the strongest by Panchavargiya bala — but only among those that aspect the annual lagna. A table of all five stays on screen: role, strength, aspect to the lagna. A strong planet that does not aspect is honestly marked "does not aspect" rather than quietly dropped.
Panchavargiya bala (five dignities) and Harsha bala (four rules of joy) are not added into a single score — they are different scales, and mixing them would invent a third.
Patyayini — the treatise's own way, eight periods. Mudda is the familiar dasha, but it comes from the publisher's appendix, and we label it as such rather than passing it off as the root text.
The verdict names the count of strong and weak planets, the strongest stretch of the year and the grounds for it — and promises no events. Favourability is computed by Ishta/Kashta, and right next to it we say plainly that this is Parashara's layer, not Tajika's: the Ishta/Kashta formula does not appear in the Tajika-Nilakanthi at all — we checked, and wrote that, instead of passing another school's scale off as this one's classics.
Masa pravesha: every month has its own chart, its own Muntha and its own lord — Masesha is chosen from six adhikaris by strength and aspect to the month's lagna. A click on a month opens its chart, the candidate table, the dasha and the fruit of that month. You see not "what kind of year this is in general" but when exactly things take shape.
An 18-line scheme built from the year's lagna: who "pierces" the Moon and from where. The reading is concrete — drawn from your chart, ending in a plain-language conclusion.
The fruits of the Lord of the Year, Muntha, the periods, the houses and the months are translated from the shlokas of the Tajika-Nilakanthi and stand beside their own calculation. Every text carries a basis chip: a verbatim shloka, an addition to the treatise, or the later tradition. Where the source is silent, we say so, instead of inventing a text.
Aspects follow the Tajika shlokas (3/5/9/11 — friendly, the kendras — hostile, 2/6/8/12 do not aspect at all), and the friendship scheme switches: positional by the annual chart, Tajikasara's fixed one, or natural. Switching the scheme honestly changes the Lord of the Year — you can see it happen on screen.
This is what a Varsha Pravesh report looks like in Dharmika.
Then the Sun (3-22 September) and the Moon (22 September — 1 October), up to the next solar return. The first dasha is shown as its remainder (bhogya).
This is only the top layer. The full report has: the 12-month tape with each month's chart and lord, the fruits by house translated from the shlokas, 36 sahams, planetary strengths by Panchavargiya and Harsha, the table of five candidates for Lord of the Year — and for each one you can see why the choice came out as it did.
The principle is the same — a chart for the moment the Sun returns to its natal position. The interpretation is fundamentally different: Tajika uses its own yogas (16 types), Muntha, Mudda dasha and sahams. It also uses the sidereal zodiac instead of the tropical one, which places the planets differently.
Yes, for Varsha Pravesh an exact birth time is critical. Even a small inaccuracy in the natal position of the Sun leads to an error in the solar-return moment, and therefore to a wrong lagna of the annual chart. Recommended accuracy: within 5 minutes.
The Varsha Pravesh chart is cast for the city where you are at the moment of the solar return (your "astrological birthday"). If you have moved, use your current city. Dharmika can cast the chart for any point in the world.
Newton-Raphson is the mathematical method Dharmika uses to find the exact moment of the solar return. Many programs use linear interpolation, which is less accurate. The difference can amount to several minutes — enough to shift the lagna of the annual chart, and with it the whole interpretation.
Newton-Raphson. Tajika yogas. Mudda dasha. Accuracy to 0.001 of an arc-second.