1. The benefic places of the Sun are the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th house from himself; the same houses from Mars and Saturn; the 6th, 7th, and 12th House from Venus; 5th, 6th, 9th and 11th houses from Jupiter; the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses from the Moon ; the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th houses from Mercury, and the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th house sfrom Lagna.


2. The benefic places of the Moon are the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses from Lagna; the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th housesfrom Mars; the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 10th and 11th houses from herself  (Moon); the 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th  house from the Sun; the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 11th houses from Saturn; the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th houses from Mercury; the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th houses from Jupiter, and the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Venus.


(a) This means the benefic and malefic places of a planet with reference to to eight places - the places occupied by the seven planets and the Lagna at the time of birth.


3. The benefic places of Mars are the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th and 11th house from the sun; the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses from Lagna; the 3rd, 6th, and 11th houses from the Moon; the 1st, 2nd, 4th,7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th houses from himself (Mars); the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Saturn; the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 11th houses from Mercury; the 6th, 8th, 11th and 12th houses from Venus; and the 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th houses from Jupiter.


4. The benefic places of Mercury are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th and 11th houses from Venus; the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Saturn and Mars; the 6th, 8th, 11th and 12th houses from Jupiter; the 5th, 6th, 9th, 11th and 12th houses from the Sun; the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th houses from himself; the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 11th houses from the Moon; and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 11th houses from Lagna.


5. The benefic places of Jupiter are the 1st, 2nd, 4th 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th houses from Mars; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th houses from himself; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from the Sun; the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Venus; the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th houses from the Moon; the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 12th houses from Saturn; the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Mercury; and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Lagna.


6. The benefic place of Venus are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th 8th, 9th and 11th houses from Lagna; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th houses from the Moon; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from himself; the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Saturn; the 8th, 11th and 12th houses from the Sun; the 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses from Jupiter; the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 11th houses from Mercury; and the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 11th and 12th houses from Mars.


7. The benefic places of Saturn are the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 11th houses from himself; the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th houses from Mars; the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th houses from the Sun; the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 10th and 11th houses from Lagna; the 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, l1th and 12th houses from Mercury; the 3rd, 6th and 11th houses from the Moon; the 6th, 11th and the 12th houses from Venus; and the 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th houses from Jupiter.


Thus have been described the benefic places of the planets; the other places are malefic. A place will produce benefic or malefic effects if it be more benefic for the planet than malefic or vice versa.

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These places are all with reference to the places occupied by the planets at the time of birth. The planets while passing through places which happen to be Upachaya houses  or which might be their own houses or their friendly or exaltation signs,  produce benefic effects fully if such houses or signs are more benefic for the planets than malefic; and planets while passing through places which happen to be Upachaya houses or which might be their inimical or depression signs, produce malefic effects fully if such houses or signs be more malefic for the planets than benefic. 

Notes

(a) For instance, the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 12th houses from himself are malefic places for the Sun. The 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 12th houses from Lagna are malefic places for the Moon, and so forth.

(b) In preparing tables of Ashtakavarga, it is usual to mark the benefic places with dots and the malefic places with lines. 

We will put down the Ashtakavarga table for Mars in the chart below

Lagna. Venus.Sun.Moon. Mercury.
RASI CHAKRA.Jupiter.
Mars.
Saturn.

Mark the benefic places of Mars with dots and the malefic places with lines. The result will be found to be as follows:--

000 = 3 11111=5000 = 3 11111 = 5000 = 3 11111 = 5000=3 11111 = 5
000=3 11111 = 5ASHTAKAVARGA OF MARS.0000 = 4 1111=4
00000 = 5 111 = 300000 = 5 111=3
00=2 111111=60=1 1111111=700000 = 5 1ll=300=2 111111 = 6


While Mars moves through sign Aries for instance, the benefic effects will be 3/8 and the malefic effects will be 5/8. In other words, he produces malefic effects to the extent of 5/8 - 3/8  of his power. Similar remarks apply to the other places.

(c) These are the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11 houses from the Lagna. and from the Moon.
(d) Or their Swakshetra or Moolatrikona houses also,

(e) From the rising sign and from the Moon .

(f) So that, in the Ashtakavarga of Mars given above, Mars while passing through Capricorn (his Upachaya house) produces benefic effects fully and not to the extent of 2/8; and while passing through Gemini (his Auupa-chaya sign) he produces malefic effects fully and not to the extent of 2/8.


N.B. - The Ashatakavarga tables are generally prepared with number of benefic dots alone marked in them - the number representing the malefic lines being the difference between number 8 and the number of dots.


Before you take a step further-Re-read this post 5 times and practice making at least 5 Bhinna Ashtakvarga (BAV) which is nothing else but Ashtakvarga of individual planets.