Amsha - Amshaka

Argala

Resistance, Impediment

german cognate = argern, to annoy, to frustrate, to block

Argala=

• A wooden bolt or pin for fastening a door or the cover of a vessel

• A bar, check, or impediment

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• Starting in any bhava (house):

  • A graha or bhava which occupies the 2nd, 4th and 11th bhava from that lagna-bhava, has a significant power of impeding or blocking the expression of the matters of that house.

• Subha-argalagives "positive impediment" i.e., facilitation, to matters of the house.

• Papa-argalagives "negative impediment" i.e., restriction, to matters of the house.