How the Akṣavedāṁśa is constructed
Each sign is divided into forty-five parts of 40' each.
- Movable signs
- The forty-five divisions are distributed successively from Aries.
- Fixed signs
- The distribution begins from Leo.
- Dual signs
- The distribution begins from Sagittarius.
- The three presiding powers
- Brahmā, Śiva and Viṣṇu repeat fifteen times through the forty-five divisions. Their order rotates with the modality: Brahmā–Śiva–Viṣṇu in a movable sign, Śiva–Viṣṇu–Brahmā in a fixed sign, Viṣṇu–Brahmā–Śiva in a dual one. Creation, dissolution and preservation — the chart of conduct is presided over by the three functions themselves.
Conduct, and why it sits with the paternal line
The pairing of paternal inheritance with moral conduct is not arbitrary. The father, in the classical frame, is the source of dharma in a specific sense — the transmitter of position, duty and the standard a person is expected to live up to. What comes down that line is not property but obligation.
So the D-45 reads as a chart of what you were given to uphold, and whether you uphold it. A strong, well-supported D-45 describes someone whose conduct is consistent with what they were raised to; an afflicted one describes a break — which may be a failure or may be a deliberate departure from something that deserved departing from. The chart shows the discontinuity, not the verdict on it.
Read it with the 9th house of the birth chart and the Sun, and alongside the Dvādaśāṁśa. Any conclusion drawn from the D-45 alone is over-reaching.
The limits of this chart
Each division is forty minutes of arc — the second-finest of the sixteen after the Ṣaṣṭyāṁśa. A birth time uncertain by three minutes can move a graha into a different akṣavedāṁśa, so the chart is only as good as the recorded time.
As with the D-40, the classical material is sparse. The construction is given precisely and the subject is stated; a detailed reading tradition is not. This page gives you a correctly computed chart and declines to invent the rest.
The Akṣavedāṁśa at a glance
Every figure here is specific to this division. The Vimśopaka rows give the share of the twenty-point strength score the Akṣavedāṁśa carries in each classical scheme — a blank means the division is not counted in that scheme at all.
| D45 | |
|---|---|
| Divisions per sign | 45 |
| Arc of one division | 40' |
| Divisional Lagna changes every | under 3 minutes |
| Vimśopaka weight · Ṣaḍvarga (6) | — |
| Vimśopaka weight · Saptavarga (7) | — |
| Vimśopaka weight · Daśavarga (10) | — |
| Vimśopaka weight · Ṣoḍaśavarga (16) | ½ |
Counted only in the full sixteen-division scheme. That is a statement about how the tradition ranks it — real, but supporting rather than decisive.
How accurate your birth time needs to be for the Akṣavedāṁśa
The Rāśi Lagna moves through a whole sign in roughly two hours, which is why the birth chart tolerates an approximate time. This division cuts each sign into 45, so the D45 Lagna moves to a new sign under 3 minutes — and the planets near a boundary shift with it. If your recorded time is uncertain by more than that, treat the D45 Lagna and any house-based conclusion drawn from it as provisional, and rectify the time against dated life events before relying on it. Sign placements of the slower grahas stay stable much longer than the Lagna does.
How this is computed
Positions come from an astronomical ephemeris, converted to the sidereal zodiac on the Lahiri (Citrapakṣa) ayanāṁśa and computed by our own Parāśara engine — no pre-written results, and no language model anywhere near a number. Where the classical texts disagree, this page names the convention we follow instead of quietly picking one.