VedaChartsSarvartha Chintamani
Sarvartha Chintamani is one of the most cited works of phala (predictive) jyotish, written by Venkatesa Daivajna. The original Sanskrit text spans 16 chapters and roughly 2,000 stanzas covering everything from yogas and dasas to marriage and women's horoscopy. B. Suryanarayana Row's 1899 English translation, the only pre-1929 PD English version, covers the first three chapters in 278 stanzas. Chapter 1 lays out the vocabulary of the system: planetary natures, dignities, sources of strength, and divisional schemes. Chapter 2 takes up general planetary combinations, the conception-time chart, and the significations of the Lagna. Chapter 3 begins the house-by-house treatment with the second house: wealth, family, speech, and the face. Later chapters of the Sanskrit work, on dasas and house-by-house predictions from the third house onward, were never published by Row in English; they remain in Sanskrit and other regional translations.
Venkatesa Daivajna was a 15th–16th century jyotish scholar working in the predictive (phala) tradition that extends Varahamihira's foundational rules into specific life-event interpretation. His Sarvartha Chintamani became one of the most cited works in that tradition, and modern teachers from B. V. Raman to David Frawley still draw heavily from it. The text holds the place it does because it concentrates the predictive yoga doctrine: where earlier classics enumerate placements, this one tells you what specific combinations actually deliver in a life. Note that Venkatesa Daivajna is a different person from Venkatesa Pandita who authored Jataka Chandrika two or three centuries earlier; the names are similar enough that catalogues often confuse them. B. Suryanarayana Row's 1899 English translation covers the foundational first three chapters, which contain the most densely cited material in the contemporary jyotish curriculum.