Bhāva calita
भावचलित
Everyday Hindi: भाव चलित
House chart drawn from house mid-points rather than whole signs.
Definition
The bhāva calita ('shifted houses') chart places grahas in houses measured from the bhāva madhya (mid-point of each house) instead of by whole signs, so a graha near a boundary may fall in a different house than in the rasi chart. The Śrīpati method, from the 11th-century Śrīpati Paddhati, divides each quadrant between the Lagna and the meridian into thirds to find the house mid-points. Comparing the Bhav Chalit and Rasi charts is a module of the School's Certificate Programme in Predictive Astrology.
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- Jyotish · Hora
South, North and East Indian charts: one sky, three drawings
The three regional ways of drawing a birth chart hold the same information. How each is laid out, how to convert between them, and what each makes easy to see.
8 min read · 22 September 2026