Ashtakavarga calculator, bindu, SAV, Sarvashtakavarga, transit strength
Ashtakavarga: reading the bindu score map
Ashtakavarga turns the chart into a numeric strength map. It is one of the most practical tools for judging which transits will actually help.
What Ashtakavarga is
Ashtakavarga is a scoring system that awards each sign points, called bindus, from eight reference sources, the seven planets plus the ascendant. Each planet gets its own table, the Bhinnashtakavarga or BAV, and the totals across all of them form the Sarvashtakavarga or SAV.
The result is a grid of numbers that shows how supported each sign is.
How to read the bindu numbers
More bindus in a sign means more support there. In the SAV, signs well above the average are considered strong zones and signs well below are weak ones. When a planet transits a sign carrying many bindus, its transit tends to go better than the same transit through a low-scoring sign.
This is why two people can experience the same Saturn or Jupiter transit very differently: their bindu maps differ.
Why it is powerful for timing
Ashtakavarga is at its best combined with the dasha and the live transit. The dasha says which planet's period you are in, the transit says where that planet is now, and the bindu score says whether that location is supportive. Together they sharpen timing considerably.
Used alone it is a static strength map; used with dasha and transit it becomes a timing tool.
How PI computes Ashtakavarga
PI computes both the per-planet BAV and the aggregate SAV and presents the bindus as a heatmap in the strength view. Because the values are computed, the AI can tell you the exact bindu count of a sign and combine it with your dasha and current transits to judge a period.
Every bindu claim traces back to the computed Ashtakavarga table rather than a guess.