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Tajika Balas
The Tajika balas are the strength measures of the annual chart tradition — the Perso-Indian school of varshaphal that reads one year at a time
The Tajika balas are the strength measures of the annual chart tradition — the Perso-Indian school of varshaphal that reads one year at a time. Because a year chart must be judged quickly and its verdicts land soon, the Tajika school built its own compact strength arithmetic rather than borrowing the natal shadbala. Its centrepiece, the pancha vargeeya bala, weighs a planet in five dignities at once — its sign, its exaltation arc, its hadda (a fine subdivision ruled term by term), its drekkana and its navamsa — and blends them into a single score out of twenty. The result sorts the year's planets into ranks with plainly spoken names: parakrami, the valiant one who can carry the year's work; poorna bali, fully strong; madhya, middling; nirbala, without strength. Beside it runs harsha bala, the 'joy' strength, a simpler measure of whether a planet is comfortable — in its house of joy, in a sign it likes, matched to its gender and to the day or night of the birth. Friendships in this school are refreshingly blunt: two fixed camps, with Sun, Moon, Mars and Jupiter on one side and Mercury, Venus and Saturn on the other. Together these balas decide which planet is fit to serve as the year's lord and how much weight each planet's promises deserve in the annual reading.
Neelakantha's five-fold strength allots a planet up to thirty points for its kshetra (sign), twenty for uccha (exaltation arc), fifteen for hadda, ten for drekkana and five for navamsa, the sum divided by four for a score out of twenty; above fifteen the planet is parakrami, ten to fifteen poorna bali, five to ten madhya bali, below five nirbala. Harsha bala adds four five-point joys: the planet's harsha house, its own or exaltation sign, the house agreeing with its gender, and agreement with day or night birth.
— Tajika Neelakanthi varṣa-tantra (pañcavargīya bala)
The engine computes both balas with the classical Tajika tables: pancha vargeeya from sign, exaltation arc, hadda, drekkana and navamsa (divided by four, banded parakrami / poorna bali / madhya / nirbala), with friendships taken from the fixed Tajika camps — Sun, Moon, Mars and Jupiter against Mercury, Venus and Saturn; and harsha bala from its four five-point factors, day and night charts distinguished. They appear in the graha bala tool's Tajika tab and inform the varshaphal calculator, where pancha vargeeya strength is the fallback that selects the year lord when no candidate forms a valid Tajika aspect to the annual ascendant.