Angarak and Grahan yoga

What this tool computes

Two conjunctions involving the lunar nodes, both of which get named in matching reports. Angarak yoga is Mars together with Rahu. Grahan dosha is the Sun or the Moon together with Rahu or Ketu. From your birth details the tool computes all five of those bodies, reports whether either arrangement is present, and prints the sign each body actually occupies, so the verdict comes with the positions it was drawn from.

The part usually left unsaid

Neither yoga has an agreed width. “Together with” has to be defined before either can be computed, and there are two live definitions: sharing a rashi, or sitting within some number of degrees. This engine uses the same-sign basis, because the sourced tables it works from state no orb, and because every other conjunction it computes uses the same basis — two planets should not be conjunct on one page of a report and separate on another.

That choice has a cost worth stating. A rashi is thirty degrees wide, so same-sign is generous: Mars near the beginning of a sign and Rahu near its end are counted together here. And the two definitions are not nested, so neither verdict contains the other. Two bodies five degrees apart on either side of a sign boundary are conjunct under an orb rule and not under this one.

What the result does and does not mean

Present means two named bodies shared a sign in your chart. Absent means they did not, on the same-sign basis, which is not the same as absent under every reading. Neither yoga is a matching factor: neither enters any score this engine computes, and neither is one of the eight kootas. What various traditions conclude about them we can report; what they will do in a life is not something a position calculation can speak to, and we do not say it.

We also name what is not computed here, because a silent gap reads as an absence. Pitra dosha is the one families are asked about most often alongside these two, and it has no single definition — readings variously require the Sun afflicted by a node, a malefic in the 9th, or the 9th lord afflicted, and they disagree on the same chart. We will not choose one of those quietly and print a verdict from it.

Is angarak the same as being manglik?

No. A manglik finding reads Mars by house, counted from the ascendant or the Moon or Venus depending on the tradition. Angarak reads Mars against Rahu, whatever house the pair sits in. A chart can carry one and not the other, and the two are decided by different rules.

Does grahan dosha mean there was an eclipse when I was born?

No. An eclipse needs the Sun, the Moon and a node aligned within a few degrees, which is a far tighter condition than a luminary sharing a sign with a node. The name carries the imagery of an eclipse. The test does not carry its geometry.

Why does this disagree with the report I was given?

Almost always because the two readings used different orbs. Ask which basis the other reading applied, same-sign or a stated number of degrees, and compare it with the positions printed here. In our sampled JPL comparison, the largest difference for the seven tested Sun-through-Saturn bodies was 0.44 arcseconds. That measurement does not cover the lunar nodes or validate the conjunction rule. Compare the node convention and the allowed separation as well as the recorded inputs.