The Ashtakavarga is recognized as an out standing system prediction among the several system s advocated in the standard works on astrology. It has been commended as the best and the most indispensable key, so that all predictions have to be made only after a consideration of the Ashtakavarga. But the treatment of the system- its methods of application and interpretation-found in the existing works is not exhaustive and through enough for students to understand, which is a serious deficiency in the outfit of the modern astrologer.
