Pitra Dosh is a condition in Vedic astrology linked to ancestral karma. It is read mainly from the Sun, Rahu, Ketu, and the 9th house of the birth chart. The rules are scattered across classical and regional traditions, which makes it hard to check by hand. This calculator examines the placements associated with Pitra Dosh in your chart and reports whether the indications are present. Enter your birth details below to check your chart in a few seconds.
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Pitra Dosh Calculator: Check Pitra Dosh in Birth Chart
Pitra Dosha
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The calculation follows classical criteria and runs automatically. Accurate birth details, including birth time, give the most reliable result.
How Is Pitra Dosh Calculated?
Pitra Dosh is assessed from the Sun, the lunar nodes, and the 9th house, which carries father, lineage, and dharma in the chart.
The common indications are the Sun in association with Rahu or Ketu, and affliction to the 9th house. Affliction to the 9th lord by the nodes or by malefics is also counted. Some traditions weigh the condition of the Sun as karaka of the father, and the placement of the nodes in the angles.
Criteria vary between schools, so an indication works as a prompt for closer study. The calculator checks the standard placements against your chart and reports each one it finds, so you can see the reasoning behind the result.
Understanding Your Result
Your calculator result shows:
- Whether Pitra Dosh is indicated in your chart
- The placements involved, such as the Sun with a node or an afflicted 9th house
- The 9th house and its lord, with their condition
- The planets forming the indication, by sign and house
An indication describes a pattern in the chart. Its weight depends on the strength and dignity of the planets involved and the aspects they receive. The support the 9th house has elsewhere matters, along with the dasha running in your life. A well placed 9th lord or a strong Jupiter can soften what the placements suggest.
Read the result as one part of a full horoscope. Where the indication is strong and you want it examined properly, a reading of the whole chart gives far more.
Frequently asked questions
Which planets create Pitra Dosh?
The Sun as karaka of the father, afflicted by Rahu, Ketu or Saturn; the 9th house or its lord under the same affliction; and in some traditions the Moon and the 5th house. The calculator checks the placements the classical rules name.
Does Pitra Dosh mean my ancestors are angry?
No. Read it as unfinished duty in the line you were born into. It shows in your own chart as a tendency around fathers, elders and dharma, and the work is yours and inward.
What are the remedies for Pitra Dosh?
Tarpana and shraddha for the departed, done with attention. Service to your own father and elders while they live, and care for the old and the poor. The mind that does these things is the remedy; the rite is its support.
Can Pitra Dosh be cancelled?
Its weight varies. Jupiter's aspect on the Sun or on the 9th, or a strong 9th lord, softens the affliction. A dasha of the afflicting planet brings the matter forward, and that is the time to do the work.