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Chart Highlights

Lagna · Moon · Sun · Nakshatra

↑Lagna
Virgo
Ascendant
☽Moon
Cancer
Chandra Rashi
☀Sun
Virgo
Surya Rashi
✦Nakshatra
Ashlesha
Birth Star

Birth Chart

Vedic divisional charts · North Indian style · Whole Sign houses

Rashi Chart Birth · Lagna · Natal
Navamsa Chart Soul · Marriage · Dharma

Planet Placements

Sun through Ketu · Sign · House · Degree · Nakshatra · Dignity

Planet Sign House Degree House · Deg Nakshatra Dignity
SunSun VirgoVir 1st 16°50' 1st · 16°50' HastaHasta NeutralNeut
MoonMoon CancerCan 11th 27°09' 11th · 27°09' AshleshaAshlesha OwnOwn
MarsMars LibraLib 2nd 26°20' 2nd · 26°20' VishakhaVishakha NeutralNeut
MercuryMer LibraLib 2nd 11°42' 2nd · 11°42' SwatiSwati NeutralNeut
JupiterJup AriesAri 8th 28°08' 8th · 28°08' KrittikaKrittika NeutralNeut
VenusVen LibraLib 2nd 24°20' 2nd · 24°20' VishakhaVishakha OwnOwn
SaturnSat ScorpioSco 3rd 20°19' 3rd · 20°19' JyeshthaJyeshtha NeutralNeut
RahuRahu CancerCan 11th 12°09' 11th · 12°09' PushyaPushya NeutralNeut
KetuKetu CapricornCap 5th 12°09' 5th · 12°09' ShravanaShravana NeutralNeut
Yoga Yogakaraka Exalt Exalted Own Own Sign Fren Friendly Neut Neutral Enemy Enemy Sign Deb Debilitated
Yoga Yogakaraka Exalt Exalted Own Own Sign Fren Friendly Neut Neutral Enemy Enemy Sign Deb Debilitated

Notable Yogas

Classical planetary combinations

Dharmakarmadhipati Raja Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Lakshmi Narayan Yoga

Life Timeline

Major events mapped to planetary periods

  • 1869 · unknown Dasha
    Born in Porbandar to a Hindu merchant family
    unknown Dasha
    The birth time is listed as Disputed with Unknown accuracy. Multiple astrological sources give different converted times from the panchangam entry, and the packet records the dasha at birth as unknown. The computed chart uses a Virgo lagna derived from the 7:08 time, but house based claims for this period carry the most uncertainty.
    Venus in house 2 in Libra in own sign is one of the most stable placements in this chart regardless of birth time. Venus ruling houses 2 and 9 from Virgo lagna, placed in Libra, puts the values and dharma axis at the heart of the birth context. The family was a merchant and administrative household, consistent with house 2 being the dominant natal frame.
  • 1888 · Venus / Rahu Dasha
    Sailed to London to study law at Inner Temple
    Venus / Rahu Dasha
    Venus is the mahadasha lord and sits in house 2 in Libra, its own sign. House 2 governs values and education of a formal kind, and Venus as ruler of house 9 placed in house 2 made this a period where the pursuit of dharma through structured learning was fully activated.
    Rahu is the antardasha lord and sits in house 11 in Cancer. House 11 governs foreign connections and gains through wide networks. Travel to London for law school is a strong 11th house event: foreign country, new community, and a credential aimed at public life. Rahu's placement in Cancer, the sign of home, also marks the emotional stakes of leaving India for the first time.
  • 1893 · Venus / Saturn Dasha
    Arrived in South Africa; ejected from a train at Pietermaritzburg
    Venus / Saturn Dasha
    Venus in house 2 in Libra continues as mahadasha lord. House 2 for Virgo lagna involves not just speech but the assertion of values in the world. The ejection from a first class train compartment was the kind of confrontation with institutional injustice that house 2, activated by Venus in Libra (a sign of balance and fairness), shaped into a decisive moment.
    Saturn is the antardasha lord and sits in house 3 in Scorpio. House 3 governs courage, decisive action, and the will to push through obstacles. Saturn in Jyeshtha nakshatra adds an element of authority being tested and reclaimed. The event at Pietermaritzburg required exactly this: a decision to stay and fight rather than return, in the face of direct humiliation.
  • 1906 · Moon / Moon Dasha
    Led mass satyagraha pledge against Transvaal registration law
    Moon / Moon Dasha
    Moon is both mahadasha and antardasha lord and sits in house 11 in Cancer, its own sign. Moon in house 11 is the chart's strongest indicator of connection to large communities and collective action. The satyagraha pledge was a mass movement, thousands of people gathered under a single ethical commitment, a direct expression of Moon's rulership of house 11 in own sign.
    Moon also aspects house 5 from house 11. House 5 governs merit and the exercise of collective conscience. The moral weight of the pledge, asking people to collectively defy an unjust law, belongs to the Moon house 5 axis. The double Moon period in 1906 concentrated this pattern intensely.
  • 1915 · Moon / Venus Dasha
    Returned to India; founded Satyagraha Ashram near Ahmedabad
    Moon / Venus Dasha
    Moon in house 11 in Cancer continues as mahadasha lord, maintaining the orientation toward community and collective structures. The return to India and the founding of a permanent ashram is a 11th house event: building an institution with a community of followers.
    Venus is the antardasha lord and sits in house 2 in Libra, own sign. Venus as ruler of house 9 (dharma, ethics) in house 2 (values, foundational resources) supported the establishment of an institution explicitly built around ethical principles. The ashram was not a home in the ordinary sense but a structured community designed for the practice of specific values.
  • 1919 · Mars / Saturn Dasha
    Led protests against Rowlatt Act; Amritsar Massacre followed
    Mars / Saturn Dasha
    Mars is the mahadasha lord and sits in house 2 in Libra, nakshatra Vishakha. Mars in house 2 as ruler of houses 3 and 8 from Virgo lagna puts the energy of assertion and crisis directly into the speech and values house. The Rowlatt Act protests were exactly this: direct vocal opposition to an unjust legal mechanism, with Mars shaping the confrontational quality of the response.
    Saturn is the antardasha lord and sits in house 3 in Scorpio. Saturn in house 3 governs the exercise of will under pressure. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened within this period. Saturn in Scorpio in house 3 corresponds to sustained, painful effort in a context of direct institutional violence. The response was not retreat but the deepening of the movement.
  • 1930 · Rahu / Saturn Dasha
    Led the 240 mile Dandi Salt March against British salt tax
    Rahu / Saturn Dasha
    Rahu is the mahadasha lord and sits in house 11 in Cancer. Rahu in house 11 amplifies the capacity to mobilise mass audiences around a single, visible act. The Dandi March was precisely this: a symbolic act of defiance that drew global attention and involved thousands of followers walking 240 miles over 24 days.
    Saturn is the antardasha lord and sits in house 3 in Scorpio. House 3 governs physical effort, travel, and determined personal initiative. The march was 240 miles on foot over 24 days, an act of bodily endurance and deliberate pace. Saturn in Scorpio in house 3, the house of sustained personal effort, maps to this directly.
  • 1931 · Rahu / Mercury Dasha
    Signed Gandhi Irwin Pact; attended London Round Table Conference
    Rahu / Mercury Dasha
    Rahu in house 11 in Cancer continues as mahadasha lord, and the gains through-network quality of this placement is fully active. The Gandhi Irwin Pact was a negotiated agreement at the highest level: direct talks with the Viceroy, resulting in a pact that released political prisoners and suspended civil disobedience.
    Mercury is the antardasha lord and sits in house 2 in Libra, part of the Dharmakarmadhipati Raja Yoga and the Lakshmi Narayan Yoga with Venus. Mercury as ruler of house 10 placed in house 2 puts the public role directly into the domain of speech and negotiation. The London Round Table Conference and the Pact are both exercises in written and spoken negotiation, precisely Mercury's domain in house 2.
  • 1942 · Jupiter / Jupiter Dasha
    Launched Quit India movement; arrested at Aga Khan Palace
    Jupiter / Jupiter Dasha
    Jupiter is both mahadasha and antardasha lord and sits in house 8 in Aries, retrograde. House 8 governs transformation, crises, and forced reinvention. Jupiter retrograde in house 8 gives the period a quality of inward philosophical intensity combined with exposure to destabilising events. The Quit India resolution was the most uncompromising demand yet: full and immediate independence, with arrest as the anticipated consequence.
    Jupiter in house 8 aspects houses 2, 4, and 12. House 12 is the house of imprisonment and withdrawal from ordinary life. Jupiter's aspect to house 12 during its own mahadasha created conditions where institutional confinement, at the Aga Khan Palace, became the backdrop for the final phase of the independence struggle. The Gajakesari Yoga (Jupiter in kendra from Moon) was fully active during Jupiter mahadasha.
  • 1948 · Jupiter / Ketu Dasha
    Assassinated at Birla House prayer meeting in New Delhi
    Jupiter / Ketu Dasha
    Jupiter in house 8 in Aries, retrograde, continues as mahadasha lord. House 8 is directly associated with death, sudden endings, and transformation in classical Jyotisha. Jupiter retrograde here, as both the natural karaka of wisdom and the occupant of the house of endings, presides over the final event of the life.
    Ketu is the antardasha lord and sits in house 5 in Capricorn, nakshatra Shravana. Ketu in house 5 aspects house 11 where Moon and Rahu sit. Ketu's separative quality, combined with its placement in the house of merit and devotion, and its aspect to the house of community, fits the context of a prayer meeting that ended in assassination. The event happened in January 1948, within the Jupiter/Ketu antardasha window.

Astrological Analysis

Interpretive insights derived from precomputed chart data

✦Data quality note

Birth data is rated Disputed with Unknown time accuracy. The Astro Databank record gives 07:08:12 local mean time for Porbandar and carries a Rodden rating of C. The source behind the time is Cyril Fagan (American Astrology, March 1948 and October 1976). B.V. Raman translated the same panchangam entry as 07:56 AM IST, which gives a different chart time because Porbandar's local mean time and IST are not the same.

All calculations here use Lahiri ayanamsa and Whole Sign houses, with Virgo ascendant based on the 7:08 time. Because the birth time is disputed, all house based claims in this overlay are conditional. The planetary sign placements are stable across the range of plausible times and carry more reliability than the specific house positions.

✦Chart signature
  • Virgo lagna with Sun in house 1, nakshatra Hasta. The Sun as ruler of house 12 placed in house 1 connects the public self to the 12th house themes of withdrawal, sacrifice, and separation from ordinary life. Hasta nakshatra is associated with craft and precise expression.
  • Dharmakarmadhipati Raja Yoga: Venus (9th lord) and Mercury (10th lord) conjunct in house 2 in Libra, rated Strong. Venus is in own sign. The 9th and 10th lords combining in house 2 puts ethics and public role into the domain of speech and values simultaneously.
  • Gajakesari Yoga: Jupiter in house 8 in Aries is in the 10th from Moon in Cancer. Rated Strong. Jupiter retrograde adds an inward, searching quality to this yoga's expression.
  • Moon in house 11 in Cancer, own sign, nakshatra Ashlesha. Moon in own sign in house 11 is one of the more direct indicators of a life shaped by mass community and collective emotional response.
  • Saturn in house 3 in Scorpio, nakshatra Jyeshtha. Saturn as ruler of houses 5 and 6 in house 3 puts determination, resistance, and the capacity for sustained physical effort at the centre of how the person acts in the world.
✦Key placements
  • Sun in house 1 in Virgo. Sun as ruler of house 12 placed in house 1 creates a first house identity shaped by 12th house themes. Hasta nakshatra on the Sun adds a quality of precision and the use of specific, crafted gestures as public communication.
  • Mars in house 2 in Libra. Mars in house 2 as ruler of houses 3 and 8 gives the voice and speech a combative edge. Mars conjunct Venus in Libra places the drive to assert and the drive to negotiate in the same house, the same sign.
  • Mercury in house 2 in Libra. Mercury as ruler of house 10 placed in house 2 makes articulate communication the engine of the public career. Mercury in Swati nakshatra adds independence and the capacity to move across different registers of expression.
  • Venus in house 2 in Libra. Venus in own sign in house 2 as ruler of houses 2 and 9 is the most stable placement in the chart. It links material values to the dharma axis directly, and Vishakha nakshatra gives the placement a quality of purpose driven persistence.
  • Moon in house 11 in Cancer. Moon in own sign as ruler of house 11 in house 11 is a rare case of the house lord being fully at home. Ashlesha nakshatra adds strategic perception and the capacity to hold a group together under pressure.
✺Yogas and combinations
  • Lakshmi Narayan Yoga: Mercury conjunct Venus in house 2 in Libra. The condition is a same house conjunction of Mercury and Venus. Rated Strong. Venus is in own sign here, which gives the yoga considerable stability. The plain meaning is an enhanced capacity for communication, persuasion, and the articulation of values with rhetorical force.
  • Gajakesari Yoga: Jupiter in a kendra from Moon. The condition is Jupiter in the 10th from Moon (both in kendra relationship). Jupiter is in Aries, Moon is in Cancer. Rated Strong. The plain meaning is expansion of reputation and influence through wisdom and the ability to move large groups. Jupiter retrograde modifies this: the expansion is inward driven as much as outward facing.
  • Dharmakarmadhipati Raja Yoga: Venus (9th lord) and Mercury (10th lord) conjunct in house 2 in Libra. The condition is the conjunction of the 9th and 10th lords. Rated Strong. The plain meaning is that ethical conviction and public role reinforce each other, and both are channelled through speech and the assertion of values.
  • Gajakesari Yoga: Jupiter in house 8 in Aries is in the 10th position from Moon in house 11 in Cancer, which is a kendra from the Moon. The yoga is rated Strong. Jupiter retrograde in house 8 adds depth and inward pressure to the qualities Jupiter normally expands outward.
✦How to read the timeline

Astrology is a lens, not proof. The events on this page are documented biography facts mapped to dasha periods as timing windows. No event has been invented or inferred from the chart alone.

The Vimshottari dasha system assigns each planet a fixed number of years based on the Moon's nakshatra at birth. Sub periods (antardasha) create shorter windows within each main period. What the dasha planet is doing in the natal chart, which houses it rules and where it sits, shapes the reading. The connections drawn here are interpretive. The birth time for this chart is disputed, so house based readings carry conditional weight, though the planetary sign positions are more stable.

Summary

Key insights at a glance

Chart Takeaways
  • Dharmakarmadhipati Raja Yoga: Venus (9th lord) and Mercury (10th lord) conjunct in house 2 in Libra. The yoga is rated Strong and places the dharma and career lords together in the house of speech and values. For a Virgo lagna, this is about as concentrated a combination of ethics, expression, and public role as the chart can produce.
  • Gajakesari Yoga: Jupiter in house 8 in Aries is in the 10th position from Moon in house 11 in Cancer, which is a kendra from the Moon. The yoga is rated Strong. Jupiter retrograde in house 8 adds depth and inward pressure to the qualities Jupiter normally expands outward.
  • Lakshmi Narayan Yoga: Mercury conjunct Venus in house 2 in Libra, rated Strong. Venus is in own sign here, giving the yoga considerable stability. The placement in house 2 puts rhetorical and communicative power at the centre of the identity.
  • Moon in house 11 in Cancer, own sign, nakshatra Ashlesha. Moon as ruler of house 11 in its own sign gives the chart an unusually strong connection between the emotional self and the house of networks, communities, and mass audiences. Ashlesha is a nakshatra associated with coiling force and persuasion.
  • Saturn in house 3 in Scorpio, nakshatra Jyeshtha. House 3 governs effort, courage, and sustained personal initiative. Saturn here as ruler of houses 5 and 6 places discipline and resistance directly in the house of self driven action. Jyeshtha is associated with authority claimed through personal will rather than inheritance.

Sources & Data Quality

References for birth data · data quality assessment

Data Quality Approximate
Famous Kundlis dataset (xlsx, imported 2 April 2026)
[1]Birth data for this page comes from the NAKSHATRA Famous Kundlis Excel dataset, imported 2 April 2026. Stored values: date of birth 2 October 1869, time 07:08, timezone Asia/Kolkata, location Porbandar.
Astro Databank (astro.com): Gandhi, Mohandas
[2]Astro Databank lists 07:08:12 local mean time for Porbandar and marks the record as rectified, Rodden rating C. Source notes cite Cyril Fagan (American Astrology, March 1948 and October 1976) and note that B.V. Raman translated the same panchangam entry as 07:56 AM IST. LMT for Porbandar and IST are not the same, so the two conversions give different chart times.