Sources
These are the works we draw on most, and what each is used for.
The encyclopaedic foundation of the Parashari tradition. Covers the signs and houses, divisional charts, yogas, and the Vimshottari dasha with its results period by period.
Used for: calculation conventions, dasha results, core yogas.
A short, dense text on how a planet's house lordships decide whether it helps or harms for a given ascendant, which planets become yogakarakas, and how dashas give their results.
Used for: functional nature of planets, dasha interpretation.
A practical, well-organised manual covering yogas, dashas, transits and their results, including the three classes of sign exchange between house lords.
Used for: yoga classification, transit results.
Known for its detailed lists of what each house and planet signifies, and for the principle of reading a house from another house.
Used for: house significations in reports.
A comprehensive work on planetary combinations and their results, often cited alongside Brihat Jataka.
Used for: combinations and conjunction results.
A large compendium drawing on earlier works, with extended treatment of yogas and of the results of house lords.
Used for: cross-checking yoga definitions.
Citations give the text, chapter and verse so you can check the original. Rules are stated in our own plain-English wording. Where translations differ on a verse's meaning, the rule page notes the difference and says which reading was tested.