How Māla Yoga forms
This is the exact condition the check above applies.
| Condition | Requirement |
|---|---|
| The grahas | The natural benefics — Jupiter, Venus, Mercury |
| The houses | Three of the four kendras — 1, 4, 7, 10 |
| Its opposite | Malefics in three kendras gives Sarpa Yoga instead |
| How often it occurs | 0.3% of charts in our sample |
Māla and Sarpa are the two Dala yogas, and they are the same structure with the benefic and malefic groups exchanged.
What Sārāvalī says Māla Yoga gives
Sārāvalī gives constant happiness, conveyances, fine clothing, wealth and pleasures, splendour — and a plurality of wives.
Benefics on the load-bearing houses is one of the most straightforwardly good configurations in the system, and the result reads exactly as that would suggest: a comfortable life, well supplied.
The garland is the image — something arranged, ornamental and pleasant, worn rather than worked for.
Dala yogas — the kendras filled by one side
Māla is the benefic Dala yoga, and among the more attainable Nābhasa yogas since it constrains three grahas rather than seven.
We measured it rather than guessed: across a sample of 398 charts, Māla formed in 0.3% of them.
The two Dala yogas turn on who occupies the angles: benefics give Māla, malefics give Sarpa. Sārāvalī gives the class a divided result — sometimes enjoying one's own fortune and sometimes another's, picking up what others have discarded, happy at times and sorrowful at others. Which of the two you carry decides which half predominates.
Two things true of every Nābhasa yoga
They run continuously — Sārāvalī says the Nābhasa yogas are "effective at all times independent of Daśās", which sets them apart from almost every other yoga in Jyotiṣa. And they constrain all seven grahas at once, so most charts carry only a few and a "not present" result is the ordinary answer.
How this check works
Your chart is computed from an astronomical ephemeris on the Lahiri (Citrapakṣa) ayanāṁśa, and the formation rule stated on this page is tested against it directly — the same rule, not a paraphrase. Where the classical texts disagree about a condition, the page names the reading we follow.