Sanskrit: “bearing on both sides”
Planets other than the Sun occupying both the 2nd and the 12th houses from the Moon simultaneously.
Both the 2nd and 12th from the Moon must be occupied, with the Sun and usually the nodes excluded. This is Sunapha and Anapha holding together, and it is the only one of the three that cannot be formed by a single planet.
Balanced resource and support from both directions — the Moon flanked rather than exposed. Traditionally read as material comfort and reliable allies.
Judge the two occupants separately and then together. Benefics on both sides is the classical ideal; a benefic on one side and a malefic on the other is read as support that arrives with a cost. Two dignified planets flanking a strong waxing Moon is the full expression.
Combustion of either flanking planet reduces the yoga to the single-sided form. A weak or dark Moon undermines the whole structure regardless of the flankers, since the yoga is defined entirely by reference to it.
The dashas of both occupants, and particularly the antardasha of one within the mahadasha of the other. Because Durudhara requires two planets, it has fewer but sharper activation windows than the single-sided forms, and a carrier who never runs either period may see little of it.
Beyond the shared disputes about the nodes, sources differ on whether Durudhara requires the flanking planets to be benefic. The stricter reading treats a malefic-flanked Moon as a different and less favourable condition rather than as Durudhara at all.
The strongest of the three flanking yogas simply because it requires both conditions at once. It is also the one most sensitive to which planets are involved, since there are at least two.
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