Ashtakavarga converts the chart into numbers. Each house is scored from the perspective of each planet plus the ascendant, producing a map of a chart's strong and weak zones — and a precise way to grade any transit.
A transit through a house with many bindus tends to deliver; through a low-bindu house it tends to struggle. This is the most objective transit-grading tool in Vedic astrology.
A house with 30 or more bindus is generally considered strong, and 25 or fewer weak, out of a total of 337 spread across the twelve houses.
Bhinnashtakavarga is a single planet's own bindu table; Sarvashtakavarga is the sum of all of them into one overall scoreboard.
Two reductions — trikona and ekadhipatya — applied to the bindus before they are used for detailed transit judgement.
Compare where a planet is transiting against the bindu count of that house. High counts favour the transit's results; low counts suggest obstruction.
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