Kaal Sarp Dosha
When all seven visible grahas — Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn — fall on a single side of the Rahu–Ketu axis, the chart is said to carry Kaal Sarp Dosha. Twelve named subtypes follow Rahu’s house, from Anant in the 1st to Sheshnag in the 12th.
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How Kaal Sarp is determined
Kaal Sarp Dosha is the classical affliction in which all seven visible grahas (Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn) lie within a single 180° arc bounded by Rahu and Ketu. Rahu and Ketu form the lunar nodal axis; when every other planet sits on one side of that axis, the chart is read as carrying the dosha.
Two boundary conventions are tested — the forward arc (planets in (Rahu, Rahu + 180°)) and the backward arc (Rahu + 180°, Rahu + 360°). If either holds, Kaal Sarp is active and the subtype is named for Rahu’s house, from Anant in the 1st through Sheshnag in the 12th.
Partial (Paritha) variant. When exactly one planet is just outside the bounded arc, the dosha is flagged partial. Some traditions — Brahmavarchas, parts of South Indian Phaladeepika commentary — treat this as a dosha-bhanga (softened) signal rather than a strict affliction; we surface it but do not claim full Kaal Sarp.
For the full chart with planetary positions, dasha context, and other doshas, open the kundli generator — Kaal Sarp belongs alongside the rest of the chart, not in isolation.