Marriage and AshtakvargaGreat use of Ashtakvarga can be made of in ensuring success in the married life. However normal astrological principles in ensuring a happy married life should not be ignored. For a happy married life following factors are necessary:

1. Lagna / Lagna lord and Seventh lord should be strong. 2. Venus should be well placed in the horoscope. It should not be debilitated, combust , in

an enemy sign or in 6 ,8 and 12 & It should not be in Pap Kartari Yoga3. Venus should not be afflicted by Mars, Rahu or Saturn. This destroys the harmony in

married life.4. Venus should not be in the beginning or end of the sign.5. Darakarka and Up-pada should be well placed.6. Lagna lord and 7th lord should not be in 6, 8, or 12 from each other.7. 2nd house of Kutumbha and 4th house of Sukhistan should not be afflicted.8. Affliction by Mars disturbs married life.9. Saturn and Mercury, two impotent planets should not afflict 7th house / 7th lord.

In Ashtakvarga some more principles are stated in classical books.Some rules given in the classical books about a happy married life are as followsa).If the wife comes from the direction represented by the rashi having the maximum number of bindus in Venus BAV then the married life is a happy one.b).Husband and wife will love each other when in the 7th from Venus in his own ashtakvarga a bindu has been contributed by a planet that happens to own one’s birth star or its trines. If Rahu and Ketu happen to be the rulers of birth nakshtras, the planets Saturn and Mars should be substituted on the analogy Dictum Sanivad Rahu.

Wife/ Husband should be from a direction represented by the sign having maximum number of bindus in the Ashtakvarga of Venus. Unhappiness will result if wife/husband is from the direction having least number of bindus.

When one of the bindus in the 7th from Venus is contributed by lord of birth nakshatra or its trines, husband and wife will love each other. Saturn should be taken for Rahu and Mars for Ketu.

Match MakingChoose a partner whose Moon sign or Lagna corresponds to signs having maximum number of bindus in native’s horoscope.ii) See in whose kakshaya Moon of the native is posited. Supposing it is in the kakshaya of Jupiter. Then choose a partner from one of those Moon signs in which Jupiter has contributed a bindu.Nehru’s Moon is of degrees 17, 51 minute. Hence it is in kakshayaof Venus. In Moon Parstharchakar (page 17) Venus has contributed bindus in the signs, Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius. Partner can be chosen who has Moon in any one of these signs.3. Number of brothers and sisters of mother can be found from bindus in fourth from Moon in the ashtakvarga of Moon. Male planets give brother while female planets give sisters.4. Find out nakshatra in which 8th lord from Moon is located. The transit of Moon over this nakshatra is not good for mental/physical health.

Good Month, Tithi, Day, Nakshtra & House to be vacant ot occupied by Planets in Marriage Muhtra:-

Months: - Magha, Phalguna, Vaisakha & Jyeshta are good Pushya & Chaitra are also good if Sun is in Capricorn & Aries

Tithi: - 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, 11th, & 13th of bright half

Day: - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, are best. Sunday & Saturday Medium.Nakshatras: - Rohini, Mrigashira, Makha, Uttara, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Moola, Uttarashadha, Uttarabhadra, Revati. (1st Quarter of Makha, Moola & Last quarter of Revati should be rejected)Sign: - Gemini, Virgo, Libra are best, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius & Aquarius are medium,

House Vacant: - 7th house should not occupied any planet. Mars should not be in 8th house, Venus should not be in 6th house, the Lagna should not hemmed in between malefic or malefic should not be in Lagna. Moon should not be with any planet. Benefic in Lagna & Malefic in 3dr & 11th house. Lagna & Lagna lord should be strong.

Some good Yogas for marriage 1.)Jupiter in Lagna, Venus in 8th & Sun in 11th called Mahendra Yoga2.)Venus in Lagna, Jup. In 10th & Sun Merc in 11th called Vishnu Priya

Yoga3.)Ven in 2nd Jupiter in 12th, Sun in 8th, Saturn in 6th Shree nath Yoga.4.)Ven in Lagna, Jup in 4th, Merc in 2nd, & Sat in 11th called Samundra

Yoga.5.)Jup. Ven. Merc in Lagna is called Vijaya Yoga.6.)Ven. Jup in Lagan is called Jaya Yoga.7.)Sat in 3rd, Jup in 6th, Sun in 10th, & Mars in 11th is called PUSHYA

Yoga.8.)Ven in Lagna & Jup in 11th is called Arhdama Yoga.

Yoga: - Vyatipata, Dhruva, Mrityu, Ganda, Vajra, Soola, Vishkambha, Atiganda, Vyaghata, & Parigha should be rejected.