Dignities, states and dashas
These notions do not describe an area of life: they say with what STRENGTH a graha acts, and when its season arrives. They are the jyotishi's reading tools.
Mahadasha and antardasha
The dignities
States of a graha
A graha retrograde
A graha vargottama
A graha combust
A graha in a kendra (angular house)
A graha in a trikona (trine house)
A graha in a dusthana (difficult house)
A graha in gandanta
A graha alone in its sign (kevala)
A graha at its exact degree of exaltation (paramocca)
A graha at its exact degree of debilitation (paramanicha)
A graha lord of the Lagna (lagnesha)
A graha in its own nakshatra