Every one of the five Pancha Mahapurusha yogas already documented on this atlas, Ruchaka for Mars, Bhadra for Mercury, Hamsa for Jupiter, Malavya for Venus and Shasha for Saturn, is a classification jyotisha inherited largely through texts like the Phaladeepika, attributed to the astrologer Mantreswara. Where the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra lays out the foundational apparatus of the tradition, the nakshatras, the graha and the divisional charts, later manuals such as the Phaladeepika take that apparatus as settled and move on to systematic results: what a given placement of a given planet, in a given house or sign, is read to produce in the life of the person born under it. The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra's own entry on this atlas names the Phaladeepika directly, describing it as one of the later manuals that assumes the earlier text's framework as already known, which is the ordinary relationship a foundational treatise has to the results literature that follows it.
The five great person combinations are a representative sample of exactly the kind of material the Phaladeepika systematizes. Each forms when one of the five non-luminous classical planets occupies its own sign or its sign of exaltation while positioned in one of the chart's angular houses, and each carries a named, detailed prediction: the physique, temperament and public standing said to follow from a Mars in Ruchaka, a Mercury in Bhadra, and so on for the remaining three. A reader who wants to know not simply that the five combinations exist, which the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and the Brihat Jataka both establish, but what a jyotisha manual actually claims one of them predicts in practice, is reading material of the kind the Phaladeepika is remembered for supplying in full.