Amatyakaraka Calculator

The minister beside the king

Amatya means a minister or counsellor at court. Parashara frames the karakas as a royal household: the Atma Karaka is the ruler, and the Amatya Karaka is the adviser who turns the ruler's intentions into action. In practice the Jaimini tradition reads this planet for vocation, for the people and resources a person relies on to get work done, and for the advice they take or give.

The post is filled mechanically. Every graha's longitude inside its sign is noted, the largest figure claims the throne, and the second largest becomes the minister. A Saturn at 26° of Gemini and a Jupiter at 24° of Leo are compared on 26 against 24; the signs themselves play no part. Whatever planet results, the dignity, house and aspects it carries are read afterwards, never used to decide the ranking.

How close the runner-up sits

Because the Amatya Karaka is defined by its distance from the top, the most useful single number on the page is the gap between it and the Atma Karaka above it. A wide gap means the two roles are well separated and modest errors in the inputs cannot swap them. A gap of a few minutes of arc means the identity of the soul planet and its minister rests on precise timing and settings.

There is a second margin worth reading, the one below. If the third-ranked planet trails the Amatya Karaka by only a fraction of a degree, the minister could just as easily be demoted. The result panel shows the ranked figure for each scheme so both gaps can be judged at a glance, and the full karaka table in the workspace lists every planet for a closer look.

Reading the Amatya Karaka in the dasamsa

Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra, in its discussion of the divisional charts, gives the dasamsa, or D-10, to power and position, and modern users usually call it the career chart. Each sign is cut into ten parts of 3°. Odd signs count their parts from the sign itself and even signs from the ninth sign onward, so every degree maps to one dasamsa sign.

For the chosen karaka the calculator reports that dasamsa sign together with two whole-sign house numbers. The first counts from the D-1 Lagna to the karaka's Rasi sign; the second counts from the dasamsa ascendant to its D-10 sign. A karaka that falls in the tenth or the first from either reference is commonly noted by practitioners, but the house figures are offered as coordinates for study, not as scores.

When the two counts name different planets

Chapter 32 ranks seven grahas in its first statement and then reports that Rahu is admitted when two share a longitude, and that some always rank eight. This engine ranks eight, Rahu taking 30° minus his longitude because he travels in reverse, and the page also repeats the sort over Sun through Saturn alone.

For the minister role those two lists diverge less often than for the spouse role. Removing Rahu only alters the second place if Rahu himself holds the first or second place, which means his reversed figure has to exceed every other planet's, or every planet's but one. That happens when Rahu sits in roughly the opening few degrees of a sign. If he ranks first, the planet that was minister among eight is promoted to soul among seven, and the third-placed body steps into the minister's seat; if he ranks second, the third-placed body takes his place directly.

The 1961 example and its narrow margin

The illustrative chart, cast for 13 December 1961 at 05:30 in Channarayapatna with the Lahiri ayanamsa, has its Lagna in Scorpio at 11°23′ and its dasamsa ascendant in Libra. Mars, at Scorpio 27°54′, leads the ranking, and the Sun, at Scorpio 27°25′, follows by twenty-nine minutes of arc, so the Sun is the Amatya Karaka. Mercury at Scorpio 25°34′ comes third, almost two degrees further back.

Sitting in the Lagna sign, the Sun is in the first house of the Rasi chart. Scorpio is even, so its dasamsa parts begin from Cancer; 27°25′ lies in the tenth part, which counts to Aries, and Aries is the seventh sign from the Libra dasamsa ascendant. For reference, the Sun's navamsa sign is Pisces.

Rahu, at Cancer 27°41′, is ranked on only 2°18′ and finishes last of eight, far from the top two places. Dropping him therefore changes nothing at the head of the list, and the Sun holds the minister's role in both schemes. The narrow gap to Mars matters more: the Sun moves about a degree a day against Mars's slower pace, so a birth a couple of days later would have reversed them, though a timing error of a few hours would not.

Limits of a single significator

An Amatya Karaka names the planet to examine for counsel and work in one particular chart. It does not identify a profession, and no classical rule maps a karaka directly onto a job. A traditional study weighs it beside the tenth house and its lord, the dasamsa as a whole, the Atma Karaka it serves, and the dasha periods in operation.

Treat the output on this page as the first coordinate in such a study. The figures are calculated, the ranking margins are shown, and the convention behind each answer is stated, so that any interpretation built on them begins from something checkable.

How do I find my amatyakaraka?

Provide a birth date, time and place in the calculator. It sorts the grahas by degrees travelled within their present signs, ranks Rahu on thirty minus his longitude, and names the second-highest planet. The panel shows the eight-karaka answer and, beside it, the answer with Rahu removed.

Is amatyakaraka the 10th lord?

Not necessarily. The tenth lord is whichever planet rules the sign on the tenth house, while the Amatya Karaka is picked by degree alone. Sometimes one planet fills both roles, which practitioners tend to note, but in most charts they differ and are examined side by side.

What is amatyakaraka in dasamsa?

It is the D-10 sign the Amatya Karaka occupies once each sign is divided into ten parts of three degrees. Since the dasamsa is the division linked to power and position, its placement there, and its house from the D-10 ascendant, are standard points to study.

Can Rahu be amatyakaraka?

Under the eight-karaka scheme he can. Rahu ranks on thirty degrees minus his position, so a Rahu early in a sign scores high, and if only one planet beats him he becomes the Amatya Karaka. Under the seven-karaka scheme he is excluded and cannot hold any role.

Why does my amatyakaraka differ between calculators?

Common reasons are a seven-graha versus eight-graha count, a mean versus true Rahu, a different ayanamsa, or a slightly different birth time. When the top two or three planets sit within a degree of one another, any of those can reorder them, so compare the ranked figures shown.

Does the amatyakaraka show a specific profession?

Classical texts do not link a karaka planet to a single occupation. The Amatya Karaka marks the graha a reading consults about counsel and work, and its meaning is weighed with the tenth house, the dasamsa and the dashas before any traditional conclusion is drawn.