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KAS Review
[Krushna Jugalkalanis Ashtakavarga System of Astrology A Review]
- By Sreenadh OG(sreesog@yahoo.com)
[Special thanks to Veneet ji (veneet@gmail.com) for providing reviewing and correcting
the quotes and for also providing the correct translation of the same. I have given the
erroneous translation of Krushna near by for the sake of comparison. I have used the
abbreviation KJ to refer to Krushna Jugalkalani throughout this document]

KAS Quotes
Sloka -1
Misspelled given quote:
svochchmitradivargasha: kendradibalsnayuta |
Anistha phalda: sarve swalpbinduyuta yadi || (ja shi 10)
In Devanagari Sript:

  

 
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[Veneets Translation: The planets which are in their own sign, in an exalted sign or in a
friendly sign, the planets which have they have kendra bala etc (i.e. placed in quadrants
or trines), if they have less bindus then they all produce malefic results.]
KJs Translation: If the planet is in its exalted sign, or in its own house, or in the house of
its friends, or in a square or trine (stanabali) aspect and it has 3 or less points in
ashtakavarga, it gives only malefic results.
Sloka -2
Misspelled given quote:
Dushtastansthita yech yech nicharimanshga |
te sarve shubhada nityamadhibinduyuta yadi ||
In Devanagari Script:

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[Veneets Translation: The planets which are placed in an adverse house, those in debility
or those in inimical signs or divisions, if they have excess bindus, then they all produce
good results]

KJs Translation: If any planet that is in its debilitated sign, in its fallen sign, or in the
house of its enemy still has more than 4 points in its ashtakavarga, it will give only
benefic results.
Both the above quotes provide standard Ashtakavarga result - because if planets are well
placed (in exaltation, own house etc) has got more Ashtakavarga points that is the best; if
badly placed (in debilitation, enemy house etc) but still have more ashtakavarga points
then it is average; and if planets are badly placed (in debilitation, enemy house etc) but
have less ashtakavarga points then it very bad. This is the standard derivation. What the
above quote does is to look at this standard result, with a partiality towards ashtakavarga
and then say that even if badly placed if ashtakavarga points are more good results will
follow (like any text only on ashtakavarga might do). Not anything much new or KAS
style here compared to the standard view. The standard view is available in quotes such
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Intend of this quote is [Well placed planets (planets in exaltation, own house etc) with strength (for example,
with more ashtakavarga points) give good results; Badly placed planets (placed in
debilitation, enemy house etc) with more ashtakavarga points give average results; Badly
placed planets with less strength (for example, less ashtakavarga points) give bad results]
But it is fun to read the derivation KJ (why we should be blame his so called guru Brij
Gopal Sastri ji and the above quotes here - they are NOT the culprits) derives from these
quotes; discarding the whole of standard astrology and even the meaning of the above
quotes! Let me quote it for you.
1) KJ: Hence we come to a very important rule - A planet is said to be exalted or
debilitated only on the benefic points it gets in Ashtakavarga. It has nothing to do with
the sign in which it is situated.
Alas! This was truly absurd! None of the slokas he quotes says so! Poor man and poor
derivation. I think nothing else to blame here except his bad sanskrit. And here starts the
KAS system and neither in the above quotes (possibly) nor with Brij Gopal shastri ji.
Now the next derivation, possibly a corollary 2) KJ: The planets that get more than 4 points are called benefic planets. Similarly planets
that get less than 4 points are called malefic planets, and the planets that get 4 points are
known as neutral planets.
Hmm... Is it not well evident from the above Yavana Jatka quote that planets SHOULD
NOT be classified as benefic or malefic based on ashtakavarga points alone?! Any way
this can be accepted as an one sided view of an ashtavargist.
Sloka -3
Misspelled given quote:
Ye chavsanaripu randhraturanbhaga |

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Ye nichapapripu khecharvargaykta : ||
Ye mandi rashipatinna sah bandhavashch |
Te sarvamukhaphaldastvabindukashchen ||
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[Veneets Translation: The planets which are in the twelfth, sixth, eighth houses or are in
debility, those which are in the vargas of a planet which is in debility or is malefic or is
an enemy, those which are friends of the lord of the sign occupied by Mandi, all of them
give good results if they have excess bindus.]
KJs Translation: Planets with 3 or less bindus or points in their own Ashtakavarga,
although situated in their exalted sign, or a friend's rashi (or fortify), or in a trikona (trine)
or in a kendra (angle), or even in upachaya houses, will give malefic results.
KJ's translation - which is a mess - we can forget. It is simply that sloka states X and KJ
says Y. But,it would be wrong if I move on with out pointing out an important point. If
you read this sloka you will notice that it speaks about "depositor of gulika" (i.e. the lord
of the sign occupied by mandi) which should naturally cause bad effects, is said to cause
good effects if placed in a sign with more ashtakavarga bindus. The reference to
depositor of mandi etc points to a period of 15th century or later for this quote, and
possibly a period after the period of origin of texts like Prashnamarga which speaks
extensively about Mandi, its depositor and the related effects. Anyway all such things are
not any relevance to KJ or his KAS system. But the point I want to attract your attention
is to is that, from the above clue we can judge that, possibly we might find these quotes in
some 15th century or later texts which are not so popular. Let us keep our mind open for
this possibility. Anyway we couldn't find anything specific to KAS in this quote as well
except the KJ's fun to watch statements that are not at all said in the quote such as
"Planets with 3 or less bindus .........even in upachaya houses, will give malefic results"
etc. From where he finds these 'Upachaya houses' even in that above quote, god only
knows!
Sloka -4
Misspelled given quote:
Arohbiyradhikbhavtulya |
bindadhika: karma bhovodayastha: ||
tungadi vargopagata namoga:|
shadviryavantashcha shubhprada:sthu||
In Devanagari Script:

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[Veneets Translation: Planets with excess bindus, nearing exaltation or possessing virya
(i.e. strong) or in a bhava-tulya state (in the middle of a house), placed in the tenth house
or in the ascendant, placed in exalted or similar vargas and having shadvarga strength
give good results.]
KJs Translation: Planets with more bindus in their Ashtakavarga, even if situated in their
fallen sign, or in the sign of their enemy, or in the dusthana houses (6-8 or 12), will give
only benefic results.
The above quote states the same thing as the above quoted Yavana Jataka quote. Nothing
new here; and nothing special to KAS here - except KJ's misunderstanding of the
meaning, mistyping and mistranslation of the quote. Oh! By the way, we have already
reached the last of the only five available so called 'KAS quotes'. Let us move to the last
one Sloka -5
Misspelled given quote:
Dashapatirlagnagato yadi syat |
trishdshaika daragashcha lagnat||
ta ta shton vargopyatha tatsuhrudva |
lagne shubho va shubhadadasasa||
In Devanagari Script:

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[Veneets Translation: If the lord of the dasha is in the ascendant or in the third, sixth,
tenth or eleventh (i.e. in an upchaya) from the ascendant, and if it is (placed favorably) in
the ashtakavarga of the ascendant (or its lord?), or is the friend of the (lord of the)
ascendant or if it is in the ascendant and is a benefic then that dasha gives good results.]
KJs Translation: Any planet receiving more bindus in the 1st, 6th and 10th houses in its
Ashtakavarga will give benefic results as related to first house matters in its antardasa.

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The quote as typed by KJ and KJ's translation is a mess. But it is from the above quote
that KJ derives his KAS Upachaya rule. And what is the special "Upachaya rule" that he
is deriving from this(!) quote? I am stating it below -

KAS Upachaya rule: The planet that gets the highest bindus in these (Upachaya) houses
is the significator planet that gives the result in its antardasha as it relates to the 1st house
starting point
Hmm...and I think that even our highly imaginative Sanjay Rath ji will fail to create such
a rule based on such a quote! My applause to KJ... well done; what ever the quote may
say..who is bothered...we have the KAS system got created here! Why blame the poor
Brija Gopal Shastri ji and the above quotes... if none of these where available then too
certainly KJ will create this system!
Most possibly Brija Gopal Shastri ji only taught standard ashtakavarga system to KJ and
also using standard Ashtakavarga quotes that are well in tune with traditional astrology.
But BGS and the quotes said X and KJ understood Y and thus got created KAS! Sorry,
this is the feeling I am getting. KJ IS the created of this system - both father and mother and (possibly) neither BGS nor the slokas are the culprit. KJ is simply 'using' the name of
BGS and 'using' these quotes just to create an aura of authority and tradition - so that
tricking people to follow this system will become easy. So let us cut the trails and say KJ created this system out of nothing, from his own mind. Both the credit and blame for
this system should go to he himself and none else. All the rules he propose are his
creation. The creation of his imaginative mind and hopefully a result of some of his
experiments based on charts. This second point is not of much worth since in his tutorial
we see new rules created even based on a single chart that comes up in a discussion!
(Anyway I won't be stressing this point further but would try to focus and list down the
core KAS rules so as to facilitate a healthy comparison)
Benefits of the study 1) It is identified that there is no KAS system or principles present within the slokas the
KAS team quotes.
2) The de-linking of slokas and (possibly) Brij Gopal ji with this KAS system is
achieved. And it is confirmed that KAS system is the sole creation of KJ himself and
none else (especially the so mystified 'slokas from hand book' not to be blamed)
3) Let me confirm - No KAS is present with in these 5 quotes that the KJ tactfully
'uses' to project his self created system.

Comparison
Let me list out some of the KAS rules along with a brief review of the same. Please not
that all the rules presented here are KJs creations and no blame should go neither to Brij
Gopal Sastri nor to the mistranslated and misunderstood Sanskrit quotes presented by
Kusush.

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Sl KAS Rule
Review
1 A planet is said to be exalted or This goes totally against the traditional view.
debilitated only on the benefic points As clarified earlier, this rule is derived as if it
it gets in its Ashtakavarga. It has is based on some old Sanskrit quotes, but the
nothing to do with the sign in which it truth is that those quotes are misunderstood,
is situated
mistyped and mistranslated; and they speak
nothing about this. This rule is KJs creation
without any other base.
2 The planets that get more than 4 points This rule is in direct conflict with the
are called benefic planets. Similarly Yavaneswara hora quote presented by
planets that get less than 4 points are Bhattolpala in BJ commentary. As per the
called malefic planets, and the planets said quote Well placed planets with more
that get 4 points are known as neutral ashtakavarga points give good results; Badly
planets.
placed planets with more ashtakavarga points
give average results; badly placed planets
with less ashtakavarga points give bad
results. This approach is more logical.
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3 7 house is always enemy house and Absurd logic and rule that goes totally
7th from exaltation is debilitation, against traditional astrology. It seems ath
therefore exalted Jupiter aspecting these are the people who originally caused
Capricorn will give malefic results. On the spread of the argument Bhava nasa karo
generalizing, the aspect of benefic Jeeva; Bhava vriddhi karo Sani, which was
planets are always malefic and the doing rounds in the net especially through the
aspects of malefic planets are always efforts of Tat-tvam-Asi (nameisego) ji,
found to be benefic.
whose pet theory was Rahu centric theory
which nobody knows what! Anyway, here
Extending it further, Jupiter is a the point is that benefic planets aspect
malefic planet that destroys the houses giving only malefic effect was a new born
and Saturn is a benefic planet that theory self created by KJ without any
nourishes the houses with their aspect. traditional support. The KAS argument goes
totally against traditional astrology.
4 Vimsottari dasa antaras do not give This argument is against traditional
correct results.
astrology. But the fun part is that even after
this statement, KAS system also uses
Let me quote some of his words (sorry Vimsottari dasa iself! But the dasa and
antaras where they expect particular results
it is bit long)
differ and introduce something called
It is said that the result of a timed upacha principle (baseless/non-depended on
event is experienced either in the quotes, as we have clarified already). First
major , the sub period or sub-sub blaming Vimsottari system and then using
that itself is indecency. Anyway this
period of the :
Upachaya principle we will discuss as
another point.
a) lord of the house
b) planets aspecting the house

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c) planets positioned in the house
d) planets aspecting the lord of the
house
e) Planets in association with the lord
of the house

All of the above statements do not

prove to be correct in any case other
than at random. Hardly a single event
of the life can be predicted when using
the above method. These laws cannot
be proven universally in all cases.
There are host of house related rules, Such assumptions are totally against
which dont find any other base, traditional indian astrology, and does not find
except KJs imagination. Let me list any other based except that it is a KJ
some of them
creation.
i) 1st house sub period will give results
related to 4th and 8th house.
ii) 2nd house sub period will give
results related to 5th and 9th house
iii) 3rd house sub period will give
results related to 6th and 10th house
and so on.. till

xii) 12th house sub period will give

results related to 3rd and 7th house
Karaka rule: 8th house from the This assumption/imagination for bhava
kalapurasha chart determines the karaka is not in tune with traditional
karaka for houses (bhava karaka). This astrology. To abbreviate the KAS bhava
is explained below
karaka list
i) Mars is the karaka for lagna (karaka 1st house Mars (body)
for body) since 8th house from Aries is
Scorpio i.e the sign of mars.
2nd house Jupiter (wealth)
ii) Jupiter is the karaka for 2nd house 3rd house Saturn (brother/sister)
(karaka for wealth) since 8th house
from Taurus is Sagittarius i.e. the 4th house Saturn (mother)
sign of Jupiter.

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iii) Saturn is the karaka for 3rd house 5th house Jupiter (children)
(karaka for brothers/sisters) since 8th
house from Gemini is Capricorn i.e. 6th house Mars (enemy/wounds)
the sign of Saturn
7th house Venus (wife/partner)
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iv) Saturn is the karaka for 4 house
(karaka for mother) since 8th house 8th house Mercury (longevity/death)
from Cancer is Aquarius i.e. the sign
of Saturn
9th house Moon (luck/father)
v) Jupiter is the karaka for 5th house 10th house Sun (job)
(karaka for children) since 8th house
from Leo is Pisces i.e. the sign of 11th house Mercury
Jupiter
brother/sister)
and so on

(earnings/elder

12th house Venus (expense/sadness)

As you could clearly see, taking Mars as

bhava karaka for body, Saturn for brother,
Mercury for longevity and death, Moon for
father(!), Mercury for elder co-born, and
Venus for sadness goes totally against the
traditional astrology. And does it have any
quote support No. Does it comes true in
practice? You decide!
Upachaya Rule: The planet that gets As clarified earlier this imaginative rule
the highest bindus in Upachaya houses sprung
from
misunderstanding
or
is the significator planet that gives the misinterpreting the meaning of a quote, that
results in its antardasha as it related to does not speak anything related to the same
the 1st house starting point. (This rule at all.
can be applied to any house). Further
the Upchaya houses from any house is As you could see the whole purpose of this
divided into 2 categories main rule that got created as an end result of a
Upachaya and secondary Upachaya. misunderstanding is just to locate a
Vimsottari antara period! i.e. Going back to
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For example 6 and 10 house from the use of Vimsottari dasa that they have
any house is termed primary upachya already blamed enough! And the so called
and 3rd and 11th house from any house exact timing of events you have already
is termed secondary upachya.
see what it is!
And then again a corollary is here

And after all these gimmicks does he able to

come to at least correct period always, at
The main Upachaya houses, are least for marriage. I am stressing marriage
directly involved in the outcome, because KJ says My specialty lies in
where as the secondary upachya finding the period for marriage and timing of
houses act only through their lord and

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the planets located in them.

events.

And what is the use of this Upachaya Alas! He is unable to do so, as he clarifies in
rule? The use is nothing but locating another context In some cases the answer
the Vimsottari Dasa period when the is only differs by approximately 18 days
event could happen! That is the core of (and I think in most of the other situations
the over praised timeing of events they must be no where near reality)
method lies in nothing but locating an
Antar dasa in which the event could
happen. Thus timing is nothing but
giving the whole span of an antara
such as from Jan 2000 to Dec 2001 the
time is proper for marriage! That
much for accurate timing of events!

Ayanamsa: KJ say

OK. Great claim! And what is the logical or

theoretical base of this Ayanamsa? Is there
I prefer to use my own customized any? Did the poor Brij Gopal Shastri ji to
ayanamsha which is shorter than the whom KJ ascribes all the blame for his own
Lahari by 54 minutes and gives me the misgivings suggested this too to him?
most accurate results. In some cases
the answer is only differs by Primarily it seems that the as most of the
approximately 18 days.
things mentioned till now this too is
baseless. There is no special logical or
theoretical or traditional base for this
Ayanasma except KJs own fancy.
Blaming the astro classics! (yes, this I dont know where it is said that marriage
too should be considered an untold would be ALWAYS performed in the dasha
KAS rule). Let me quote KJs words or antardasha of the lord of the 7th house.
With the excellent Sanskrit knowledge and
I have found very vast differences this so called KAS system that is totally
between text book law and the actual depended on astro classics and tradition (pun
results that come to pass. For instance, intended) KJ might be knowing better! To me
as per the text of Hindu astrology, the it seems - nothing but blaming ones own
marriage of an individual is performed ignorance on ancient astro classics, and
when Guru (Jupiter) transits particular nothing else. You decide!
houses or makes aspects to the seventh
house from itself (i.e. its transit
through lagna, third house, seventh,
eleventh etc). So many times, is does
not coincide with the fact, although it
may do so accidentally. It is also said
that when the marriage is related to the
seventh house, it is partially true. But
it is not always performed in the dasha

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or antardasha of the lord of the 7th
house.

Hope you all got a brief understanding about the KAS approach and its base or
baselessness. I could have amended this list with many more points and corollaries, but
why torture people is this much not enough?!
Benefits of the study 1) KAS system is NOT compatible with AIA approach.

Some Notable Points

Let me list out some of the points that are notable 1) I was wondering with this much ill standard in Sanskrit how could the english of
Krushna Jugalkalami (here after KJ) be good. And I was thinking that it might be
Ash (Elijah Nagawkar) or someone else who might have wrote this tutorial and
ascribed it to KJ. But later (from KAS followers) I came to know that it was not
by Ash but by Donna Quinn. Her excellent English should be appreciated which
does provide readability to to tutorial. But the fun fact is that the first page of the
book reads "by Krushna Jugalkalani" and the name of Donna Quinn is no where
to be seen! And when the mistakes are pointed out the general clarification that
comes from KAS followers is that "the book is written by Donna and not by KJ"
(indicating that the blame should go to Donnna not to KJ!). It is real shameful
attitude! The attitude - which says 'let all the good, appreciation and benefit go to
KJ and everything that is bad, and the blame should go to Donna, who dedicate
herself to wrote this text and whose name is not mentioned anywhere'! Is that an
appreciable attitude a so called guru should follow? I would say that it is a third
rate shameful attitude. And will attribute (as the book says) the whole blame and
appreciation to KJ himself. (Donna is out of picture since her name is not
mentioned anywhere). KJ's code of conduct says - "I will behave truthfully and
honestly at all times and keep my conduct pure in heart" - poor man he preaches
but never practices it himself, evident from the above behavior!
2) KAS system is a computer based astrology system, a modern computer astro babe
produced by KJ. He himself confirms in his book that it is very difficult (if not
impossible) to use this system without the use of a computer and some excel
sheets. [I always had the hunch feeling that KJ started conducting some astrology
classes, as the classes progressed he made-up this system just for the sake of
classes. Anyway I don't have much info to backup this theory as of now]
3) Out of the 5 misspelled slokas given in the tutorial three has some curious text
near them which reads - (ja shi 10), (ja shi 11), (ja shi 55) as if it is a reference
number. The 4th do not have any "ja shi" associated with and the 5th is a
fatherless quote without any special reference. KJ only states "I came upon the
following Sklokas" (and gives 2 misspelled couplets) without mentioning from

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where! Now what is this "ja shi"? KJ's so called gurus name was Brij Gopal
Shastri", if it was his name that was under reference it should have been "ba ga
shi" or so. But no, what we see is "ja shi", as if it is some books name with quote
number 10, 11 and 55. Yes, it is certainly possible that Brij Gopal Shastri copied
these quotes from some book and wrote them down in his note book, and then
taught these standard Ashtakavarga principles to KJ and he understood or
interpreted it upside down (as we have already shown). If we accept this
possibility, the question is which is the book that "ja shi" could point to? Possibly
it is not "ja shi" (a typo there as well?) but instead "ja chi" possibly standing for
book names like "Jataka Chintamani" or "Jataka Chintaratnam" or something
similar. Can "ja shi" itself be correct and still it point to some meaningful book
name? Nothing comes to my mind in that direction - if something comes to your
mind, please let me know. Anyway this is a good clue. We need to search for a
book with the name possibly "Jataka Chintamani" or so which speaks about
"Ashtakavarga" and contains these quotes and possibly (based on the clue that we
already derived from 3rd quote) a text that got written after 15th century or so by
a south Indian scholar (this based on the reference to 'depositor of mandi' in the
3rd quote). Let us keep this option open and something might surface in near
future (that might turn the KAS theories upside down once again).
4) One chapter (lesson 6) in the tutorial is dedicated to KJ's Ayanamsa Table, which
also contains the following impressive sentence - "The (precession rate) increase
is approximately 0.044 seconds over a span of 100 years, so per year, it
(precession rate) is increasing by a value of 0.00044 seconds per year'; and also
gives an ayanamsa table for AD 1919 to AD 2500. Yep, we now know that the
credit for this should actually go to the astronomical knowledge of Donna Quinn,
but anyway as of ascribe it to KJ himself (since DQ is kicked out of the equation
by KJ by not including/mentioning her name anywhere in the text)
5) Lesson seven gives some complex house ABCD rules, and lesson eight some
Samadharmi rules etc. I don't want to bore people with the review of them as well.
But there is notable argument presented by KJ in lessen eight which reads as
follows - "Venus loses its natural power if it is within 3 degrees from the Sun.
Similarly, it gives adverse results if it is more than 43 degrees from the Sun. If it
aspects Saturn in the above case, it behaves like and 'anti-karaka'. Its karaka for
marriage and bed comforts gets spoiled". Tall claims! Anyway I leave it to you all
to experiment and determine whether this new born theory is valid or invalid.
Actually there are several such absurd theories present in that chapter such as "Venus in the Nakshatra of Kartika (0-10 degrees of Taurus) losses its karaka and
become natural", "Jupiter in Librara loses all of its benefic qualities and its
karaka(?) gives opposite effect" etc etc. Note the terms - he is not speaking about
"Jupiter losing its own karakatwa", but about "Jupiter's Karaka losing its
karakatwa" - yap, one more new born theory on karaka!
6) Here and there in the book you may come across impressive looking statements as
well such as - "Slow moving planets delays result" (and thus indicating that fast
moving planets speeds up results), There is no Mercury's Nakshatra in Saturn
signs and so on.

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Thus my option is that it is a book written in good English utilizing 'Donna Quinn', for a
baseless theory manufactured by the businesses-man Krushna Jugalkalami who is
interested in computer astrology with near to nil Sanskrit knowledge (and possibly very
less English knowledge as well) for projecting his self created theories which has
possibly neither any traditional base nor any base in his so called guru 'Brij Gopal Shastri'
ji's teachings. Anyway the book is written in effective English (thanks to Donna), and
presents some good insights here and there, even though as whole it is based on some
misspelled, misunderstood, mistranslated quotes. Anyway if the system works (so argues
some of it followers), then it can be appreciated as another unique system, but definitely
it cannot be welcomed to the AIA camp since many KAS concepts goes totally against
traditional indian astrology and also because it is a new born computer astro babe which
is not "ancient".
Benefits of the study 1) This windup my KAS review, and the end result put in one sentence, it is confirmed
that - "KAS is non-compatible with AIA".
[By AIA, I mean Ancient Indian Astrology/Traditional Indian Astrology/Oriental
Astrology which is the standard set of astrological practices well supported by ancient
astrological classics and sage told texts]
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