Maitreya asked — O venerable Sage! Kindly enlighten me on one point. If all the houses are judged in accordance with the Sudarśana Chakra, why have many learned sages advocated declaration of effects from the houses reckoned from the Ascendant in the birth chart?

तत्र तत्र ग्रहस्थित्या ज्ञेयं तत्तत्फलं बुधैः । ।8(क)।। [OCR खण्ड अपठनीय — diagram and table lines in the OCR at this point correspond to the Sudarśana Cakra illustration and example working (pp.794–799). No verse text is present; only the worked example narrative follows.]