Kendradi and Drekkana Bala: Houses, Degree Thirds and Calculation Profiles

What do Kendradi and Drekkana Bala measure?

The examples below use whole-sign houses and the Astrogyana calculation profile inspected for this guide. They also show Maitreya's documented table, which differs for Moon, Venus, Mercury and Saturn. This difference is visible rather than hidden inside a single supposedly universal rule.

These are traditional astrological scoring conventions. A larger value describes a component within that framework; it does not establish a measured physical force or guarantee a person's behaviour or life events. The aim here is to make the arithmetic understandable and comparison between reports possible.

Write down the inputs before reading the score

Record the planet's name, sidereal sign, degree within that sign, ascendant sign, house convention and scoring profile. Keep the original coordinate precision. A value printed as 10.00 degrees may have been rounded from just below the boundary, which matters for the third-based score.

Number signs Aries 1 through Pisces 12. A degree within a sign lies from zero up to, but not including, thirty. It is not the same as longitude measured around the entire zodiac. For example, 219 degrees of zodiacal longitude lies at 9 degrees in Scorpio, sign 8.

The seven classical planets are the subjects of this table. Do not insert Rahu or Ketu into an unspecified grouping and then present the resulting number as part of the same method. If a different report extends the calculation to additional bodies, that extension needs its own documented rule.

The twelve-house Kendradi table

The three values repeat every three houses. This is a house-group score, not an ordering of all houses by general desirability. In particular, house 9 receives 15 here even though another interpretive discussion may describe it as a trinal house. Different classifications answer different questions.

The score does not depend on which of the seven planets occupies the house. Sun and Saturn in the same whole-sign house receive the same Kendradi value. Other strength components can still differ because they use other inputs. Keeping the components separate prevents a calculation from turning into an unsupported interpretation.

Calculate a whole-sign house, including zodiac wraparound

Let A be the ascendant sign number and P the planet's sign number. With positive modulo, house = ((P − A + 12) mod 12) + 1. Select 60, 30 or 15 according to whether (house − 1) mod 3 is 0, 1 or 2.

For Scorpio rising, A = 8. A planet in Leo, P = 5, gives ((5 − 8 + 12) mod 12) + 1 = 10. Its Kendradi score is therefore 60. A planet in Libra gives house 12 and a score of 15. The wraparound does not require guessing how many signs remain before Aries.

A degree-based bhava chart can place a planet differently from this whole-sign calculation. Do not take a house number from that chart while claiming to reproduce these examples. A report can legitimately specify another house method, but the inputs and comparison then change. The Kundli entry point supplies the context for inspecting placements.

Find the ten-degree third without rounding

For an in-sign degree d, the third is floor(d / 10) + 1. The intervals are [0,10), [10,20) and [20,30). Thus exactly 10 degrees starts the second third, while exactly 20 degrees starts the third. Exactly 30 degrees must first be carried into the next sign.

For manual work, arcseconds are convenient: the thresholds are 36,000 and 72,000 arcseconds within a 108,000-arcsecond sign. A coordinate of 9°59′59″ belongs to the first third. Adding one arcsecond moves it into the second. These discrete changes are part of the stated rule.

This third number is not yet a D3 sign. Constructing the Drekkana divisional chart involves another mapping. A D3 sign, its dignity and this fifteen-point strength component should not be substituted for one another. The D3 calculation guide explains the chart mapping separately.

Why two reports can disagree about Drekkana Bala

In the Astrogyana profile used here, Sun, Mars and Jupiter prefer the first third; Mercury and Saturn the second; Moon and Venus the third. Maitreya's published table agrees on the first group but places Moon and Venus in the second third and Mercury and Saturn in the third.

This is a material rule difference, not a rounding error. The table documents both without claiming that they have been reconciled into one authoritative tradition. The arithmetic examples use the labelled Astrogyana column, and the final column shows how the other profile changes the Drekkana contribution.

The source uses traditional planetary classifications in explaining its table. Those are categories within the astrological method, not statements about a person's gender or worth. For numerical work, the explicit planet lists remove the ambiguity that category names can otherwise introduce.

Seven worked placements with Scorpio rising

These are seven independent teaching fixtures, not a claim that all listed placements describe one actual sky. The subtotal is only Kendradi plus Drekkana. Read the Sun row first: Leo is the tenth whole-sign house from Scorpio, and 9°59′59″ is in the first third. The two contributions are 60 and 15, giving 75 Virupas.

The Mercury row keeps the arithmetic simple. Scorpio is house 1, so Kendradi is 60. At exactly 10 degrees Mercury begins the second third, giving 15 under the Astrogyana profile and 0 under the Maitreya table. The corresponding subtotals are therefore 75 and 60.

Venus in Gemini is house 8, worth 30. At 19°59′59″ it remains in the second third. Its Astrogyana Drekkana score is 0, while the comparison profile gives 15. This is a useful diagnostic case because one arcsecond later both the boundary and the preferred-profile result matter.

Watch what changes at 10 and 20 degrees

With Scorpio rising and Mercury staying in Scorpio, Kendradi remains 60 across all six rows. The degree moves within the sign, so the whole-sign house remains unchanged. Only the third-dependent component changes. This isolates the two mechanisms rather than changing several inputs at once.

Now consider the end of the sign. Mercury at Scorpio 29°59′59″ has Kendradi 60 and Astrogyana Drekkana 0. At Sagittarius 0°00′00″ its whole-sign house becomes 2 and Kendradi becomes 30; its new first-third Drekkana score is still 0. Carrying the coordinate correctly matters even when the third score happens to stay unchanged.

If an input is uncertain across 10 or 20 degrees, retain both possible outcomes and the interval that produced them. Printing extra decimal places does not resolve uncertain source coordinates. The right response is to expose the sensitivity of the rule, not to invent a precise birth-time correction.

An exhaustive check across all 36 sign-thirds

Fix one ascendant and one planet. Twelve signs with three equal thirds each create 36 sectors of ten degrees. Four houses receive each Kendradi score, and the planet has one preferred third in every sign. Under either of the displayed profiles, the resulting subtotal distribution is the table above.

For example, a subtotal of 30 can occur in two ways: a 15-point house with the preferred third, or a 30-point house with either non-preferred third. Those possibilities contribute four and eight sectors, respectively. Combining equal totals gives twelve sectors; overlooking this overlap would produce the wrong audit.

The 36 sectors cover 360 degrees exactly. Their subtotal sum is 1,440, giving a geometric average of 40 Virupas over equal-longitude sectors. This is an arithmetic check, not a frequency forecast for real births: planetary motion, selection of times and the changing ascendant are not uniform assumptions supplied by this table.

Keep the subtotal separate from full Shadbala

The possible combined values in this profile are 15, 30, 45, 60 and 75 Virupas. Dividing by 60 gives 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1 and 1.25 Rupas. A subtotal of 75 is possible because the two components are added; it does not mean a single sixty-point component has exceeded its maximum.

Sthana Bala also includes Uchcha, Saptavargaja and Ojayugma contributions. The complete Shadbala report adds other strength families as well. Compare the D1/D9 parity component and the Rupa, Virupa and requirement-ratio guide before comparing a subtotal with an overall threshold.

Kendradi and Dig Bala are also different calculations. One uses a repeating house group; the other uses a planet-specific directional relationship. A similar reference to houses does not make their values interchangeable.

A practical worksheet for comparing two calculators

First compare the same planet and the same unrounded sidereal coordinate. Next compare the ascendant sign and house method. Then compare the named third table. Finally compare units and identify whether the displayed field is Drekkana alone, Kendradi alone, their subtotal or a larger total.

Change one input at a time. To test the third table, hold the sign and ascendant fixed and use 5, 15 and 25 degrees. To test Kendradi, hold the in-sign degree fixed while moving the planet through the twelve sign numbers. Each exercise isolates a distinct rule and produces an explainable expected result.

Keep a short record with input, convention and intermediate score. If two tools still differ after these details agree, preserve the example for review rather than choosing whichever number sounds more favourable. The calculation-methodology page gives broader method context; the explicit tables here define the examples in this article.

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