Aaj ka panchang with tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana - each worked out from the actual positions of the Sun and Moon, against your own sunrise. With the avoided windows, the favourable one, and the arithmetic behind every figure.
Guna Milan reads both Sun charts — the birth-star, the sign and the quarter within it produce the eight tests and your total out of 36. Your own scores are in the free result above; the rule behind each one, and what it means day to day, is in the full report.
Both Sun charts are read and each of the eight tests gets its own score out of 36 — with the rule that produced it printed beside it.
Manglik, Nadi and Bhakoot are checked for both of you — and every classical exception is computed on your own charts, never assumed.
Where a score came out low, you get the fix: what to do, what to avoid, and the dates when your chart support a wedding.
Your own scores are free, above. The rule behind each one, the exceptions, and the dated windows are in the full report.
Panchang means five limbs - pancha five, anga limb. That is the entire definition, and it is worth holding onto because so much gets bundled onto the word. A panchang is not a horoscope, not a forecast and not a reading of your chart. It is five quantities computed from the positions of the Sun and the Moon on a given day, at a given place.
Everything else in this tradition that concerns timing - muhurat, festival dates, vrat days, the choice of an hour for something - is built on these five and nothing more. Learn what they are and the rest of the subject stops being mysterious.
A tithi is the time the Moon takes to gain twelve degrees on the Sun. Take the Moon's longitude, subtract the Sun's, divide by twelve - the whole number you get is the tithi. Thirty of them make one lunar month.
The first fifteen are Shukla Paksha, the waxing fortnight, running from the new moon to the full moon. The next fifteen are Krishna Paksha, the waning fortnight. Amavasya is the new moon; Purnima is the full moon.
Here is the part that confuses people: a tithi is not a day. Because the Moon does not move at a constant speed - its orbit is elliptical - a tithi can run anywhere from about nineteen to twenty-six hours. It drifts against the clock. That is why a tithi rarely lines up with a calendar date, why it can begin one afternoon and end the next, and why the panchang names the tithi running at sunrise rather than the one that happens to cover most of the day.
This single fact explains most of the confusion around Hindu festival dates. Ekadashi is the eleventh tithi; Amavasya of Kartik is Diwali. When a tithi straddles two calendar days, two calendars can legitimately place the festival differently.
Vara is the weekday, and it is the only limb that needs no astronomy at all. Each of the seven belongs to a planet: Sunday to the Sun (Ravivara), Monday to the Moon (Somavara), Tuesday to Mars (Mangalavara), Wednesday to Mercury (Budhavara), Thursday to Jupiter (Guruvara), Friday to Venus (Shukravara), Saturday to Saturn (Shanivara).
That ordering is not arbitrary and it is older than you might think. It comes out of the hora cycle - the planetary hours - where twenty-four hours running through seven planets leaves a remainder of three, so each day begins three steps along from the last. Follow that through and you get exactly the sequence of weekdays we all use. The same order appears in Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Indian sources, because they are all describing the same arithmetic.
Also worth knowing: the vara changes at sunrise, not at midnight. In panchang terms, Tuesday begins when the Sun rises on Tuesday, not at 12:01 am.
Nakshatra is which of the twenty-seven lunar mansions the Moon occupies. Each is 13°20' wide, and the Moon crosses one in roughly a day - which is where the number twenty-seven comes from, since the Moon takes about twenty-seven days to circle the zodiac.
More muhurat rules turn on the nakshatra than on anything else in the panchang. Whether a day suits travel, a ceremony, a purchase or the start of a course of study is, in the classical rules, mostly a question of which nakshatra the Moon is in. Each nakshatra also carries a gana, a yoni and a nadi, used in matching rather than in daily timing.
The nakshatra also divides into four padas of 3°20' each, and for several purposes the pada matters as much as the nakshatra itself.
Where tithi subtracts the Sun from the Moon, yoga adds them. Take the two longitudes, add them together, and divide the sum into twenty-seven parts. The result is one of twenty-seven named yogas - Vishkumbha, Priti, Ayushman, and so on through to Vaidhriti.
Most people meet the yoga only when something is ruled out. Several of the twenty-seven - Vyatipata, Vaidhriti, Parigha, Vishkumbha - are named as unfavourable for particular activities, and a muhurat calculation will avoid them. The others pass without comment, which is why the limb is easy to forget.
Karana is half a tithi - the Moon gaining six degrees on the Sun rather than twelve. There are eleven of them: four fixed (Shakuni, Chatushpada, Naga, Kimstughna) that occur once each in a lunar month, and seven movable (Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila, Gara, Vanija, Vishti) that repeat eight times.
This is the limb most panchang pages leave out, usually without saying so. A page showing tithi, vara, nakshatra and yoga has given you four of five and still called it a panchang. The karana refines what the tithi says - Vishti karana, also called Bhadra, is the one classical rules most often tell you to avoid.
The civil day starts at midnight. The panchang day does not - it starts at sunrise.
This has real consequences. The tithi, nakshatra and yoga named for a date are the ones running at that sunrise, even though each of them will probably change partway through the day. It also means that between midnight and sunrise you are still, in panchang terms, in the previous day.
And because sunrise depends on where you are, the panchang genuinely differs by location. Two cities a few hundred kilometres apart can have different tithis named for the same date, if the tithi changed in between their sunrises. Neither calendar is wrong. This is the rule working correctly in two places.
That is why this page asks for your location rather than defaulting to one city - and why a panchang copied from a Delhi almanac is not, strictly, the panchang for Chennai.
Every panchang lists Rahu Kaal, and most people have heard of it without ever being told what it is. So here it is plainly.
Take the time between sunrise and sunset. Divide it into eight equal parts. Each part is roughly ninety minutes, though it stretches in summer and shrinks in winter. Then a fixed rule assigns one part to each weekday - and that part is Rahu Kaal. Monday takes the second part, Saturday the third, Friday the fourth, Wednesday the fifth, Thursday the sixth, Tuesday the seventh, Sunday the eighth.
Yamaganda and Gulika come from the same eightfold division on their own weekday rules. Abhijit is different - it is the eighth of fifteen divisions, so it lands around solar noon, and it is the one window read as favourable rather than avoided.
Now the honest part. These are arithmetic on your sunrise and sunset. They are not events. No classical source describes harm arriving because of the clock, and the tradition treats them as times to avoid beginning something - a convention about starts. They apply equally to everyone in your city on a given day, use no birth details, and involve no chart.
That last point deserves a moment. If Rahu Kaal were what it is often described as, then everything begun in that window by anyone anywhere would go badly, every day, and no classical text makes that claim. Knowing it as a convention costs you nothing and stops it becoming a source of anxiety.
Thirty tithis make a lunar month, and twelve lunar months come to about 354 days - roughly eleven days shorter than the solar year. That is why Hindu festivals drift earlier against the Gregorian calendar each year.
Left alone, the drift would eventually put Diwali in summer. So roughly every third year an extra month - adhik maas, also called mala maas or purushottam maas - is inserted to pull the calendar back into line with the seasons. It is a genuine calendrical correction, and the same principle as a leap year solving a different problem.
Regional conventions differ too. Northern India mostly uses purnimanta months, ending at the full moon; southern and western India mostly use amanta, ending at the new moon. The same day can therefore sit in differently named months depending on where you are. Both are internally consistent, and neither is a mistake.
A panchang tells you what the day is in the classical scheme. It is a description of the sky, computed and checkable.
It does not tell you what will happen. It is not personal - there is no birth chart in it, and the same panchang applies to everyone in your city. And choosing a time for something specific - a wedding, a housewarming, a new business - takes more than a panchang: that is muhurat, which reads the nakshatra, tithi, weekday and often the ascendant together, and usually against the person's own chart.
We give you the five limbs, the windows, and the arithmetic behind each. What you do with it is yours to decide.
Each limb with what it measures and how it is computed - the Sun-Moon difference for tithi and karana, the Moon alone for nakshatra, the two added for yoga, and the weekday for vara. With the arithmetic printed so any figure can be reproduced on paper.
The civil day starts at midnight and the panchang day does not. Which is why a date can carry one tithi in the morning and another by evening, why you are still in yesterday at 3 am, and why your location changes the answer.
Nineteen to twenty-six hours, drifting against the clock because the Moon's orbit is elliptical. The single fact behind most confusion about Hindu festival dates, explained with the arithmetic.
Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika as eighths of the daylight period assigned by weekday; Abhijit as the eighth of fifteen. All four are arithmetic, and we print the arithmetic rather than the warnings.
Why twelve lunar months fall eleven days short of a solar year, how the extra month corrects it, and when the next one falls. A genuine calendrical fix, and the reason Diwali does not drift into summer.
The two regional conventions for where a lunar month ends, how they shift which month a date is said to fall in, and why both are internally consistent.
What a panchang tells you and what choosing a time actually takes - the nakshatra, the tithi, the day and often the ascendant read together, usually against a person's own chart.
Swiss Ephemeris + Lahiri ayanamsa — the same standard as traditional panchangs. Both Suns computed from real birth details and real coordinates, never guessed from a name.
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This panchang by date of birth answers the six questions people search most — panchang calculator by city, tithi nakshatra yoga karana today, panchang for any date, birth panchang details, janam panchang kaise dekhe — each with the rule behind it. The panchang by date of birth above computes your own result free; the sections below explain what it means, and a panchang by date of birth that shows its working is one you can check against any astrologer.
Panchang by date of birth gives the five limbs of the day you were born: the tithi (lunar day), the nakshatra (the Moon's star), the yoga (the Sun-Moon combination), the karana (half a tithi) and the vara (weekday) — the same five a priest reads before naming a child or fixing a ceremony. Each carries a classical meaning for the native. Panchang by date of birth on this page is computed for the birth city and time with each limb's exact start and end, and the birth nakshatra linked to the nakshatra and dasha calculators.
A panchang calculator by city matters because the tithi and nakshatra end at fixed moments in universal time, but which day they fall on depends on local sunrise: a tithi ending at 6:10 am in Guwahati (after sunrise) belongs to that day; the same moment is before sunrise in Mumbai and belongs to the previous day. Sunrise, moonrise, rahu kaal and the muhurats all shift with coordinates. This panchang calculator by city computes everything for the place entered, not for a default Delhi.
Tithi nakshatra yoga karana today is the daily reading in the panchang's own order: the tithi for the day's vrat and festival, the nakshatra for the Moon's star (and your tara bala from it), the yoga for the day's general quality (Vyatipata and Vaidhriti are avoided), the karana for half-day work (Bhadra/Vishti is avoided for beginnings). Tithi nakshatra yoga karana today on this page is printed with each one's end time in IST for your city, so a tithi that ends at 2 pm is not mistaken for a full day.
Panchang for any date lets you look up a wedding date in 1985 or a griha pravesh in next March: the five limbs, sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, the rahu kaal and the day's abhijit and choghadiya, all for the city chosen. Panchang for any date on this page is the same engine that computes today, run on the date you enter, with the lunar month and paksha named and the festival or vrat, if any, that falls on the date.
Birth panchang details carry classical meanings: the birth tithi gives the general fortune (Purnima and Ekadashi are read well; Amavasya and Chaturdashi with care), the birth nakshatra gives temperament and starts the dasha, the birth yoga gives the nature (Siddhi, Shubha, Brahma are strong; Vyatipata, Vaidhriti, Vyaghata are read as obstacles to be worked through), the karana gives the manner of action, and the vara the ruling planet. Birth panchang details on this page are printed with those readings, and the honest note that the birth chart outweighs all five.
Janam panchang kaise dekhe is answered by entering the birth date, time and city above: the five limbs are computed with their end times, so if the birth was after the tithi changed, the correct tithi is shown. Janam panchang kaise dekhe for a naamkaran or a vrat uses the birth nakshatra and its pada, printed here with the syllable, and the birth tithi, which fixes the tithi-based birthday that many families still keep.
If you came to this panchang by date of birth to check a result from another app, compare the degree, not just the sign — two tools using different ayanamsas will disagree by about a sign near boundaries. This panchang by date of birth prints Lahiri, the value used, and every intermediate step, so the panchang by date of birth result can be verified line by line.
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