The process of finding the benefic dots in the Ashtakavargas of the several planets involves heavy labour. The Ashtakavarga Plate is a device that simplifies the work. If a diagram of the zodiac with the rising sign and the positions of the Sun and other planets at the time of any person's birth be drawn, and if all the benefic dots produced by the separate Ashtakavargas (8-fold groups of figures) be set down according to the directions contained in the Ashtakavarga formulas each containing eight divisions in respect of the eight sky-rangers beginning with the Sun and the Lagna or the rising sign, one should then obtain the figures 48, 49, 39, 54, 56, 57 and 39 to represent the benefic dots of the Sun and other planets. Of the Sarvashtakavarga, the sum total of the benefic dots of all the planets is 337 (48+49+39+54+56+57+39+57-4).