How does this page decide which planets need a remedy?

By Shadbala, the six-fold strength of the classical chapter. A graha appears in the list when its total falls below its own BPHS minimum, which is 390 virupas for the Sun, 360 for the Moon, 420 for Mercury, 390 for Jupiter, 330 for Venus and 300 each for Mars and Saturn, at 60 virupas to the rupa. Mars is added whenever Mangal dosha is present and Saturn during Sade Sati. If every graha clears its line, the list is empty, which is the correct result rather than a failure.

What kinds of remedy does classical astrology actually prescribe?

The remedial chapter of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra names four classes: mantra, yantra, daana or charity, and puja and upasana. Those four organise every card on this page, along with the graha's deity and the samidha of the navagraha homa, which comes from Agni Purana ch. 164. Gemstones are a separate lineage: their identity and grading rest on the Brihat Samhita's Ratna-pariksha chapter, so they carry their own citation rather than borrowing the BPHS one.

How many times should a planetary mantra be repeated?

The purashcharana totals in BPHS's graha-shanti chapter, vv. 19-20, are the Sun 7,000, the Moon 11,000, Mars 10,000, Mercury 9,000, Jupiter 19,000, Venus 16,000, Saturn 23,000, Rahu 18,000 and Ketu 17,000, adding to 1,30,000. Verse 19 states the nine figures as word-numerals and verse 20 supplies the multiplier of one thousand and the order, beginning with the Sun.

Why does this site give a different japa count for Mars than other sources?

Because the widely reprinted figure appears to be a printing error. R. Santhanam's English BPHS gives Mars 11,000, which duplicates the Moon's row and makes his own table sum to 1,31,000 rather than the verse's 1,30,000. Both Sanskrit witnesses read disah, the ten directions, meaning 10,000, and the Hindi tika spells that out with no ambiguity. This app uses 10,000, and the total closing exactly at 1,30,000 is the check that the reading is right.

Is the gemstone weight in carats a classical rule?

No, and the page says so on the card. Brihat Samhita ch. 80 identifies and grades gemstones but prescribes no per-graha ring weight, and the BPHS remedial chapter prescribes mantra, yantra, daana and puja rather than a wearing rite. The carat bands and the wearing procedure are 20th century jeweller and practitioner convention, so they are shown with a label saying exactly that and they never carry a classical citation.

Is Lal Kitab a classical text?

No. Lal Kitab is a corpus of the 1939 to 1952 period, its authorship is debated, its editions differ on individual placements and upaya, and it has no stable verse numbering, so this app cites it topically at a traditional-lore tier rather than as a classical source. Its signature measures, such as feeding crows or burying a flute in a deserted place, appear in no Parashari remedial chapter, and the app does not pretend they do.

Are all the Lal Kitab entries actual Lal Kitab rules?

No, and the ones that are not say so. Thirty of the nine-by-twelve planet and house placements are hand-curated Lal Kitab rules and carry the Lal Kitab citation. The remaining cells are generated in-house from a house-domain template, carry no provenance at all, and must be labelled as generated from the house's domain rather than as a Lal Kitab rule. Attaching a citation to a cell the tradition never wrote would be worse than leaving it uncited.

Do I need to enter birth details to see remedies?

Yes. The list is chart-driven: it is computed from your Shadbala, your Mangal dosha status and whether Sade Sati is running, so it needs a date, a time and a place of birth. Without a chart there is nothing to select on, and a generic list of nine planets would not be the same page. Birth details are used to compute the chart and are not written to a database.

Astrology Remedies - Gemstone, Rudraksha, Mantra, Lal Kitab

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Gemstone, rudraksha, mantra and Lal Kitab remedies tailored to your chart.

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Remedies for weak or afflicted planets in your chart

Which grahas get a remedy on this page, and how that is decided

This page lists remedies for the grahas that fall below their own Shadbala minimum in your chart, plus Mars whenever Mangal dosha is present and Saturn during Sade Sati.

The minimums are BPHS's, stated in virupas and converted at 60 virupas to the rupa: the Sun needs 390 virupas, the Moon 360, Mercury 420, Jupiter 390, Venus 330, and Mars and Saturn 300 each. A graha that clears its own line gets no remedy, so a chart where everything is strong correctly shows an empty list rather than a padded one.

That is a computed selection, not a mood. Shadbala itself is the six-fold strength of the classical chapter, computed in virupas across all six balas and reported in rupas, so the question the page answers is narrow and checkable: which grahas in this chart do not reach the strength their own verse requires. Nothing on the page claims what a weak graha will do; the selection decides only whose remedial material to show.

The four classes BPHS actually names

The remedial chapter of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra prescribes four classes of measure: mantra, yantra, daana, and puja or upasana. Those four are the spine of what this page shows, and every per-graha card is organised around them: the beej mantra with its purashcharana count, the navagraha yantra, an itemised daana list with the weekday it is traditionally offered on, and the deity of the graha. The samidha, the firewood of the navagraha homa, comes from the Agni Purana ch. 164.

Gemstones are a separate lineage and are cited separately. Their identity and grading rest on the Brihat Samhita's Ratna-pariksha chapter, not on the BPHS remedial chapter, so the gemstone row carries its own citation rather than borrowing the neighbouring one. Keeping the two apart is the point: a reader can see that the mantra and the daana come from one chapter and the stone from another text entirely.

The japa counts, and the one figure most sites print wrong

The purashcharana totals come from BPHS's graha-shanti chapter, vv. 19-20, where verse 19 gives the nine figures as word-numerals and verse 20 supplies the multiplier and the ordering: these numbers, multiplied by a thousand, are the japa counts, in order, of the planets beginning with the Sun. Decoded, that gives the Sun 7,000, the Moon 11,000, Mars 10,000, Mercury 9,000, Jupiter 19,000, Venus 16,000, Saturn 23,000, Rahu 18,000 and Ketu 17,000, totalling 1,30,000.

Mars is the figure to check. R. Santhanam's English BPHS prints 11,000 for Mars, which duplicates the Moon's row and makes his own printed table sum to 1,31,000; both Sanskrit witnesses read disah, the ten directions, and the Hindi tika spells the figure out. So this app uses 10,000 and the total closes at 1,30,000, which is self-checking.

A rival lineage also exists and is disclosed rather than blended in: the South Indian temple series, transparently the Vimshottari dasha years multiplied by a thousand and totalling 1,20,000, attested as practice with no classical Sanskrit locus located for it, so it is shown as a variant and never used as a default.

Two fields that are trade convention, and are labelled as such

Two things on a gemstone card have no classical locus and are fenced off so they cannot be mistaken for scripture: the per-graha carat weight band, and the wearing procedure with its wash in water and raw milk, its 108 chants and its hora-timed moment. Brihat Samhita ch. 80 grades and identifies gemstones; it prescribes no per-graha ring weight, and the BPHS remedial chapter prescribes mantra, yantra, daana and puja rather than a wearing rite.

They are still shown, because they are what practitioners actually do and omitting them would leave a reader to find a worse version elsewhere. What they never get is a citation chip: they carry a label saying they are modern trade convention and not from a classical text. That distinction, visible on the card itself, is the whole reason the fields can be shown at all.

The Lal Kitab tab, and exactly where its citation stops

The second tab holds Lal Kitab upaya, which are a different tradition with a different flavour: the solid silver ball, feeding crows, burying a flute in a deserted place, honey sealed in an earthen pot, sweet chapati for dogs. None of those appears in any Parashari remedial chapter, and pretending otherwise would be laundering.

Lal Kitab is a corpus of the 1939 to 1952 period whose authorship is debated, whose editions differ on individual cells, and which has no stable verse numbering, so its citation here is topical and sits at a traditional-lore tier rather than a classical one.

Thirty of the nine-by-twelve placements are hand-curated Lal Kitab rules and carry that citation. The rest are generated in-house from a house-domain template, and they are fenced: they carry no provenance at all and must be labelled as generated from the house's domain rather than as a Lal Kitab rule. Attaching a Lal Kitab citation to a cell Lal Kitab never wrote would be worse than having no citation, so the app does the honest thing and marks the boundary.

Frequently asked questions

How does this page decide which planets need a remedy?: By Shadbala, the six-fold strength of the classical chapter. A graha appears in the list when its total falls below its own BPHS minimum, which is 390 virupas for the Sun, 360 for the Moon, 420 for Mercury, 390 for Jupiter, 330 for Venus and 300 each for Mars and Saturn, at 60 virupas to the rupa. Mars is added whenever Mangal dosha is present and Saturn during Sade Sati. If every graha clears its line, the list is empty, which is the correct result rather than a failure.
What kinds of remedy does classical astrology actually prescribe?: The remedial chapter of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra names four classes: mantra, yantra, daana or charity, and puja and upasana. Those four organise every card on this page, along with the graha's deity and the samidha of the navagraha homa, which comes from Agni Purana ch. 164. Gemstones are a separate lineage: their identity and grading rest on the Brihat Samhita's Ratna-pariksha chapter, so they carry their own citation rather than borrowing the BPHS one.
How many times should a planetary mantra be repeated?: The purashcharana totals in BPHS's graha-shanti chapter, vv. 19-20, are the Sun 7,000, the Moon 11,000, Mars 10,000, Mercury 9,000, Jupiter 19,000, Venus 16,000, Saturn 23,000, Rahu 18,000 and Ketu 17,000, adding to 1,30,000. Verse 19 states the nine figures as word-numerals and verse 20 supplies the multiplier of one thousand and the order, beginning with the Sun.
Why does this site give a different japa count for Mars than other sources?: Because the widely reprinted figure appears to be a printing error. R. Santhanam's English BPHS gives Mars 11,000, which duplicates the Moon's row and makes his own table sum to 1,31,000 rather than the verse's 1,30,000. Both Sanskrit witnesses read disah, the ten directions, meaning 10,000, and the Hindi tika spells that out with no ambiguity. This app uses 10,000, and the total closing exactly at 1,30,000 is the check that the reading is right.
Is the gemstone weight in carats a classical rule?: No, and the page says so on the card. Brihat Samhita ch. 80 identifies and grades gemstones but prescribes no per-graha ring weight, and the BPHS remedial chapter prescribes mantra, yantra, daana and puja rather than a wearing rite. The carat bands and the wearing procedure are 20th century jeweller and practitioner convention, so they are shown with a label saying exactly that and they never carry a classical citation.
Is Lal Kitab a classical text?: No. Lal Kitab is a corpus of the 1939 to 1952 period, its authorship is debated, its editions differ on individual placements and upaya, and it has no stable verse numbering, so this app cites it topically at a traditional-lore tier rather than as a classical source. Its signature measures, such as feeding crows or burying a flute in a deserted place, appear in no Parashari remedial chapter, and the app does not pretend they do.
Are all the Lal Kitab entries actual Lal Kitab rules?: No, and the ones that are not say so. Thirty of the nine-by-twelve planet and house placements are hand-curated Lal Kitab rules and carry the Lal Kitab citation. The remaining cells are generated in-house from a house-domain template, carry no provenance at all, and must be labelled as generated from the house's domain rather than as a Lal Kitab rule. Attaching a citation to a cell the tradition never wrote would be worse than leaving it uncited.
Do I need to enter birth details to see remedies?: Yes. The list is chart-driven: it is computed from your Shadbala, your Mangal dosha status and whether Sade Sati is running, so it needs a date, a time and a place of birth. Without a chart there is nothing to select on, and a generic list of nine planets would not be the same page. Birth details are used to compute the chart and are not written to a database.