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Also called Sarva Ashtakavarga · Sarvashtaka varga · SAV · Samudaya Ashtakavarga · Aggregate Ashtakavarga · Aggregational Ashtakavarga · सर्वाष्टकवर्ग

The aggregate Ashtakavarga: for each sign, the sum of the points of the seven planets' Bhinnashtakavargas there. Whatever the chart, the twelve signs add to 337, because each planet's table holds a fixed number of points; the Lagna's own table (49 points) is not part of it, and with it added the total is 386, the other aggregate the page offers as a choice.

Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit sarva, 'all' (the gloss in Rao's textbook), with Ashtakavarga: the Ashtakavarga of all seven planets together.

Rao's textbook glosses sarva as 'all', and the name sets the aggregate against the Bhinnashtakavarga of a single planet. Rao's textbook defines the aggregate as the sum of the seven planets' tables. The form with sarva was not looked up in a dictionary; Wiktionary's entries for aṣṭaka and varga give the rest of the compound.^[4][3][1]

How we know · epistemology

Classical tables applied by counting

The sum is arithmetic on the planets' counts, and its total of 337 is a check on the tables. Rao calls a sign with 30 or more points strong and 25-30 average, so 30 is in both his bands, and says more than 30 for a transit (25.5.1); the translation of Parasara read calls more than 30 favourable, 25 to 30 medium and fewer than 25 adverse. Their words do not settle which band 30 is in, and the page does not choose. Those words are the books', not a measurement.^[1][2]

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