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In short
Varshaphal is the annual chart of the Tajika tradition, cast for the moment each year when the transiting Sun returns to the exact sidereal longitude it held at birth. This app finds that moment, casts the annual chart, places the Muntha and lists the five year-lord candidates without crowning one. No Tajika text is in this site's corpus.
What the term means
Varshaphal is the annual chart. It is a second chart, separate from the birth chart, cast once a year for the instant the Sun comes back to the exact longitude it held at birth, the solar return. That annual chart is read for the twelve months that follow. Its own Ascendant and houses frame the year, and a moving point called the Muntha points to the area the year is aimed at.
Where the term comes from
The engine describes Varshaphal as a classical Tajika technique, and no Tajika text is in this site's corpus; a search of BPHS, Saravali and the other text files for Varshaphal, Tajika, Muntha and solar return finds nothing. Jyotisha Siddhanta Sara (Ch. II, p. 20) lists Varshaphala among the five areas of astrology, the one that "confines itself to the prediction of events for a particular year", without giving its method. The older texts have a different idea of a year lord. BPHS Ch. 27 Sl. 13 gives a Varsh Lord, "the Lord of the day, on which the astrological year of birth starts", as one of the time strengths, and Saravali Ch. 7 Sl. 1-3 counts year and month lords from weekdays. Advanced Predictive Astrology names "Varsha Pala dasa" once, in a list of systems, without describing it.
How this app computes it
- The return moment is found by repeatedly halving a search window around the birthday until it is under a second of time.
- The annual chart is cast for that moment with the same astronomy as the birth chart, at the birth place; the app states that classical practice is split between birth place and residence, and only the birth place is stored.
- The Muntha is placed, and five classical year-lord (Varshesha) candidates are listed with their sign, house and dignity. None is chosen, because the strength contest that chooses one is not built; one candidate, the Trirashi lord, is listed unresolved.
- It needs a birth time. By default it shows the year running today, which for a birthday still ahead is last year's return.
A small illustration
For the chart of 19 January 1985, 11:14 IST, New Delhi, the engine finds the 2026 solar return at 17:58 UTC on 19 January 2026. The annual chart has Virgo rising; at age 41 the Muntha is in Leo, the 12th house of that chart, with the Sun as its lord.
Pages that use this term
- Varshaphal calculator - your annual chart for any year since birth.
- When the birth time is unknown - why the annual chart needs one.
- The Sun in Vedic astrology - the graha whose return defines the year.
- Sun in the 2nd house - points to the annual chart for the Sun's yearly return.
- Sun sign calculator - the sidereal Sun position the return comes back to.
- Kundali - its Timeline tab casts the Varshaphal for the year being lived.
Related terms
Sidereal zodiac, Lagna, Vara and Dignity.
Varshaphal Annual Chart
The annual chart, cast for the instant the Sun returns to its natal longitude.
What it needs
Date, time and place
That is more than this article asks for - it only ever takes a date, and sometimes a time, and never a name or a birth place. So this one runs on its own page, which asks for exactly what it needs and stores none of it.
Run it on its own page