Thus this specific condition is met when a planet transits through last pada of Bharani, Aslesha, Vishakha and Sravana and the 1st pada of Krittika, Magha, Anurdha and Dhanistha. When a transiting planet is in last quarter of the nakshatra preceding the corner or the 1st quarter of the nakshatra succeeding the corner, in addition to the normal vedhas, they also cause vedha to the diagonal crossing the Purna Tithi and all the bodies falling in that diagonal as well as all the vowels in the corner. etc) and the signs (Cancer, Gemini, Taurus). Since in the accross Vedha, the vedha to the nakshatra is the most important, we shall only consider Ashwini as receiving Vedha and ignore other bodies such as the aksharas (ma, l. The bodies highlighted in yellow colour are having "Accross Vedha" while those highlighted in green are having "Fore Vedha" and those highlighted by purple are having "Hind Vedha" from the said planets i.e., Mars and Mercury. In this illustration, lets see the planets Mars and Mercury causing vedha to which bodies. Similarly, since the nodes are always in retrograde motions, the hind vedha is always effective and fore vedha is always ineffective. Since the Luminaries always move in forward direction, the fore vedha is always effective, while rear vedha is always ineffective. When the planets are stationary or moving in normal pace, the across vedha is more effective than others and when moving in faster motion or retrogression, fore or hind vedha becomes effective respectively. We have seen that that the impact of the vedha in one of the direction is dependent on the motion of the 5 planets, excluding the luminaries and the nodes. This vedha is always effective for the nodes since they always move in retrograde motion. This vedha becomes effective when the planets are in retrograde motion, as their sight is backward. Hind (rear) vedha: When seen from the transiting planet, the bodies falling in the diagonal seen in anticlockwise (antizodiacal) direction are under hind vedha. This vedha is always more important for the Lumineries, whose motion is always in forward direction.ģ. This vedha becomes effective when the planets are moving fast. Fore vedha: When seen from a transiting planet, the bodies falling in the diagonal seen in clockwise (zodiacal) direction are under fore vedha. This vedha is more effective if the planets are in normal motion or stationary.Ģ. Similarly when the planets transit the nakshatras on the upper wall of the chart, the accross vedha will be downward. Thus when the planets transit on the nakshatra in the left wall of the chakra, the across vedha will be on the nakshatras (and bodies) towards the right and vice versa. Across vedha: When seen from a transiting planet, the bodies falling across in the Sarvatobhadra chakra comes under vedha from the said planet. The influence is stronger if they are exalted and retrograde while weaker if they are debilitated. The vedha of benefics are considered to be favouable and that of malefics are considered as unfavourable.
While in normal transits of planets, vedha of other planets can nulify the benefic or malefic influences, in Sarvatobhadra Chakra, the Vedha shows the influence of transiting (or natal) planets on various nakshtras, signs, tithis, aksharas etc. Vedha means to pierce and hence can means the power of a planet to influence a favourable or unfavourable result. We can encounter this concept while studying transits of planets from natal Moon and hence its understanding is vital in any studies of transits. The concept of vedha is very important in transit analysis. In subsequent article, the boxes will be referred as A1 (row A, column 1), I9 (row I, column 9) etc. I find giving names to the rows and columns will make it easier to refer to a particular boxes. For reference purpose I have given the names to the column from 1 to 9 and that to the rows as A to I, although this is not done in the astrological texts and other astrologers. This chart contains 9*9 = 81 boxes containing the nakshatras, signs, tithis, weekdays or the aksharas. Although the prime focus here is analysis of transits, this can also be used for natal horoscope, dasa analysis etc. The term Savatobhadra means overall auspiciousness (sarva- overall bhadra- auspiciousness) and takes into consideration almost all factors in vedic atrology viz., the 28 nakshatras, the 12 signs, the 30 tithis, the 7 weekdays and the 50 aksharas (Sankrit Alphabets) and hence can be used for variety of analysis of planetary transits. Sarvatobhadra Chakra is a tool used as part of Transit of Planets.