The angular offset between the sidereal zodiac (fixed to the stars, used in Indian jyotisha) and the tropical zodiac (fixed to the equinox, used in the West). It now stands at roughly twenty-four degrees, and it is why an Indian chart and a Western chart give different rashi.

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  The gap between them is the ayanamsha , and today it is about twenty-four degrees.

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