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What is a Kundli?
A kundli (birth chart) is a map of where the Sun, Moon, and planets were sitting in the sky — against the backdrop of the 12 zodiac signs — at the exact moment and place you were born. Vedic astrology reads that arrangement to describe personality, life themes, and timing, using your Lagna The Ascendant — the zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon at the exact moment of birth. It anchors the whole chart: every house is counted from here. as the chart's anchor point.
Generate your kundli →What is Panchang?
Panchang is the traditional Hindu day-calendar, built from five elements ( Tithi A lunar day — the time it takes the Moon to move 12° further from the Sun. A lunar month has 30 tithis, split into the waxing (Shukla) and waning (Krishna) fortnights. , Vara The weekday, each ruled by a planet (Sunday: Sun, Monday: Moon, and so on) — one of the five elements of a daily Panchang. , Nakshatra One of 27 lunar mansions (13°20' each) the Moon's position falls into — used for muhurta timing, compatibility, and Dasha calculations. , Yoga (Panchang) One of 27 combinations formed from the Sun and Moon's combined position — one of the five elements of a daily Panchang. , and Karana Half of a tithi — there are 60 karanas in a lunar month, cycling through 11 named karanas. ) plus sunrise/sunset and the day's auspicious and inauspicious windows. It's what tells you, for any given day, whether it's a good time to start something new.
See today's Panchang →What is Guna Milan?
Guna Milan (also called Ashtakoot See Guna Milan — the "eight koots" (factors) scored when matching two charts. matching) is a traditional pre-marriage compatibility check. It compares the Moon positions of two people's birth charts across 8 factors, worth 36 points in total — the higher the score, the more traditionally favorable the match is considered.
Match two kundlis →What is Vimshottari Dasha?
Vimshottari Dasha A 120-year cycle of planetary periods (Mahadashas) that Vedic astrology uses to time when a planet's effects are most active in your life. Which planet's period you're born into is determined by the Moon's nakshatra at birth. is a timeline of planetary periods, unique to your chart, that Vedic astrology uses to predict *when* a planet's themes are most active in your life — not just what they are. Every generated kundli includes your full Dasha timeline down to the sub-period ( Antardasha A "sub-period" within a Mahadasha — each Mahadasha is itself divided into 9 antardashas ruled by all 9 planets in sequence, giving finer-grained timing. ) level.
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