Combustion means a planet is lost in the Sun's glare and cannot be seen from earth at all. Putting Surya in the house of the invisible makes that literal meaning the best available description of the whole placement.

Dusthana and upachaya at the same time, the sixth house rewards exactly the qualities that make the Sun difficult elsewhere. This is the placement where being unyielding is the correct answer.

Surya casts one aspect and one only, the seventh, so from the marriage house it lands squarely on the ascendant. This is the single placement in the cluster where the Sun spends a lifetime looking back at the native.

Everything people quote about Saturn timing is an average, and Saturn is the planet where the average hides the most. It holds one sign for 793 days and another for 1,014.

Twenty-four planetary hours, running slowest planet first from sunrise. Count them and the order of the seven weekdays falls out of the arithmetic.

Rahu goes through your houses in reverse and takes about 19 months over each one. It is also direct on a quarter of all days, which is not what anybody says about it.

Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Char are good. Kaal, Rog and Udveg are not. Those seven names are the seven planets, and the split is their own.

Abhijit is the exact middle of the daylight, seven muhurtas either side. It is almost never 48 minutes and almost never centred on 12:00.

Stack every restriction in a panchang and almost no time survives. Here is how the limbs are actually weighed against each other.

Eleven karanas fill the sixty half-tithis of a lunar month. Seven repeat eight times each, four appear once, and the arithmetic is exact.

The panchang yoga is not a planetary combination and not the practice. It is Sun plus Moon, and it is the fastest-moving limb of the five.

Rahu Kaal is an eighth of the daylight, so it stretches and shrinks with the season. And unlike its two companions, it cannot be derived from a planet.