The munthā's house — The eighth bhāva — Randhra
Traditional interpretation — Parāśara transmission · BPHS, bhāva significations; Phaladīpikā II
Randhra means the chink, the hidden opening: this bhāva governs what is concealed and what arrives unannounced — sudden change and reversal, legacies and what comes through others, research into secrets, the depths of the psyche, and in the classical scheme the computation of āyus. It is a dusthāna, the deepest of the difficult houses, and the texts prefer it quiet: an eighth left unemphasised is itself counted a kind of support.
Still, nothing is concluded from the class alone. The eighth lord's dignity and seat, the occupants of the bhāva, and the aspects falling on it decide between depth and disruption — the computed chart beside this passage carries those facts. The tradition reads a well-placed eighth lord as penetrating insight and endurance through change; an afflicted configuration is read as upheaval. The chart, not the label, says which.