Kuja Dosha, and whether your tradition agrees you have it

What this tool computes

It locates Mars in your chart and then answers the kuja dosha question five times over, once for each of five documented traditions. Alongside each verdict it prints the working: the houses that tradition counts, and whether it judges those houses from the ascendant only or from the Moon and Venus as well. You get five answers and, more usefully, five rules you can hold up against the one your astrologer used.

The thing a bare verdict leaves out

“Kuja dosha present” is not yet a checkable statement. The same chart is flagged or cleared depending on choices the report rarely names, and the spread those choices produce is wide. On one set of computed charts, the narrowest school — Astro-Vision (serious Kuja dosha only) — flags 11.7%, while the widest, OP / SKU panchangas, flags 73%. Same planet, same positions, different rule.

Notice what the narrow school is doing. It counts only the placements it regards as seriously afflicted and ignores the rest. So a chart described elsewhere as having kuja dosha may be, under that school, a chart with Mars in a house it does not count at all. Intensity words like severe or partial are doing this work silently.

What the result does and does not mean

Five verdicts with their rules attached tell you where your chart sits in a documented disagreement. Of the charts measured, 61.4% come out flagged under one school and clean under another, so a chart that splits the five is ordinary rather than unusual.

What none of it does is describe a person or forecast a marriage. A dosha is a classification of a planetary position under a stated rule. It is not a prediction, and this tool does not make one.

Kuja dosha, manglik, chevvai dosham — are these different problems?

They are one tradition under three regional names, differing in which houses are counted and what they are counted from. Kuja dosha is the usual Telugu and Kannada name, manglik the northern one, chevvai dosham the Tamil one. If two sides of a family use two of these names, they may also be using two different rules without either side realising it.

I was told it is severe. What makes it severe?

That depends entirely on the grading the astrologer applies. Some traditions grade by house, treating the 7th and 8th as the strongest placements; some grade by the strength of Mars itself or by aspects on it; some do not grade at all and report only presence or absence. The question worth asking is which of those was used, because the word on its own does not say.

What should I take back to the astrologer?

Three specifics. Which houses were counted. Whether Mars was judged from the ascendant alone or also from the Moon and Venus. And which cancellation conditions were checked and found not to apply. Those three answers turn a verdict into something two families can actually examine together.