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In short
Agni tattva is the fire element: in this app the signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. The engine counts how many of the nine grahas sit in fire signs to find a chart's dominant element, and reads the 10th-house sign's element in the career reading. BPHS calls two of these three signs fiery by name.
What the term means
Agni tattva is the fire element as a quality of signs. In this app the fire signs are Mesha (Aries), Simha (Leo) and Dhanu (Sagittarius) - every fourth sign from the first. The engine's element table, ELEMENT_BY_SIGN, simply repeats Fire, Earth, Air, Water round the twelve signs, so each element holds one movable, one fixed and one dual sign.
Where the term comes from
BPHS Ch. 4 calls two of the three signs "fiery" in so many words: Mesh (Sl. 6-7) and Dhanu (Sl. 17-18½). Its description of Simh (Sl. 12) names no element. For the grahas, BPHS Ch. 3 Sl. 20 and Ch. 76 Sl. 2 give fire to Mangal, and Ch. 76 Sl. 5 says a strong Sun also gives a fiery temperament; Saravali Ch. 4 Sl. 14 likewise gives fire to Mars. BPHS also has a fifth element, space, which it gives to Guru (Ch. 3 Sl. 20); the four-way sign table has no place for it. One difference from the app should be stated: BPHS Ch. 76 Sl. 3-4 reads a person's elemental temperament from the strongest graha, while this app counts the signs the grahas occupy.
How this app uses it
- Dominant element: buildKundaliInsights() counts the nine grahas, Rahu and Ketu included, by the element of the sign each occupies, and reports the largest count as the chart's dominant element. On a tie, the first in the order Fire, Earth, Air, Water is reported.
- Career reading: the career and money engine looks up the element of the 10th-house sign; for Fire its sentence is about drive and initiative.
- Saptavimshamsa (D27): the count starts from one of the four movable signs, chosen by element - fire signs from Aries, earth from Cancer, air from Libra, water from Capricorn - so the fire signs start from Aries.
- Matching: the Varna koota table in kundli matching repeats every four signs, so all three fire signs share one Varna value.
One engine reading
For 19 January 1985, 11:14 IST, New Delhi, the Moon and Mercury in Sagittarius give Fire a count of 2, and the 10th house is Sagittarius, so the career reading uses the Fire sentence.
Pages that use this term
- Aries (Mesha Rashi) - a sign BPHS calls fiery.
- Sagittarius (Dhanu Rashi) - the other sign BPHS calls fiery.
- Leo (Simha Rashi) - the fire sign BPHS gives no element word.
- Aries and Leo Moon-sign compatibility - two fire signs in matching.
- Career and money - reads the element of your 10th-house sign.
- Kundali - shows your chart's dominant element.
Related terms
Prithvi tattva, Vayu tattva, Jala tattva, Mangal, Surya and Rashi.