Janma Kundli Birth Details Special Points

Birth Details & Avakhada Chakra

Q: Why is my Hindu weekday different from my civil weekday?

The Hindu day (vaara) begins at sunrise, not at midnight. If you were born after midnight but before sunrise, the Hindu weekday is still the previous day's: a 4:28 AM birth on a civil Tuesday belongs to the Hindu Monday. All vaara-based factors in your chart use this sunrise-based weekday.

Q: What does the dasha balance (for example, Jupiter 7Y 10M 25D) mean?

At birth you are always partway through a Vimshottari mahadasha, ruled by the lord of your birth nakshatra. The balance shows how much of that first period remained. A balance of Jupiter 7Y 10M 25D means roughly the first eight years of life ran under Jupiter before the next mahadasha began. It is calculated from how far the Moon had travelled through your nakshatra.

Q: Why are my Indian and Western sun signs sometimes different?

Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac (fixed to the stars) and Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac (fixed to the seasons). The two are offset by the ayanamsa, currently about 24 degrees, so the Sun often occupies different signs in the two systems. Near a sign boundary they can also agree, as both can read the same sign on certain dates.

Q: What is ishtkaal and how do I read a value like 057-09-27?

Ishtkaal is your birth time expressed in the classical units used by Sanskrit astronomy: ghati (24 minutes), pala (24 seconds) and vipala (0.4 seconds), counted from sunrise. The value 057-09-27 reads as 57 ghati, 9 pala and 27 vipala after the governing sunrise. Traditional texts compute the ascendant and several muhurta factors directly from ishtkaal.

Q: What is the name syllable used for?

Each quarter (pada) of a nakshatra carries a traditional sound. In the naming ceremony (namakarana), a child's name is classically chosen to begin with the syllable of their birth pada, linking the name to the Moon's exact position at birth. Your sheet shows your own pada's syllable along with all four syllables of your nakshatra.

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What is the Avakhada Chakra?

The Avakhada Chakra is the summary table written at the head of a traditional kundli. It gathers, in one place, the classical attributes of your birth: the qualities of your Janma Nakshatra (the star the Moon occupied when you were born), your Moon sign and its lord, your ascendant, and the panchang elements (tithi, yoga, karana) prevailing at that moment.

Most of these attributes come into play during kundli matching for marriage (the Ashta Koota system scores varna, vashya, yoni, gana and nadi between two charts) and in the naming ceremony, where the nakshatra pada suggests the first syllable of a child's name.

Alongside the traditional attributes, this page shows the technical values astrologers record with a chart: the exact Julian day, the ayanamsa used to convert tropical positions to sidereal, the local sidereal time that fixes your ascendant, and the classical time measures (ishtkaal in ghati-pala-vipala).

How are these values calculated?

Everything on this page is derived from three inputs: your birth date and time, and the coordinates of your birth place. The planetary positions come from the NASA/JPL DE ephemeris; the Moon's longitude fixes your nakshatra, pada, Moon sign and the dasha balance; the Sun's longitude fixes your sun signs; and the rotation of the Earth (sidereal time) fixes your ascendant.

The time rows convert your clock time into the older measures astrologers used: GMT removes the time zone, LMT adjusts to your exact longitude (4 minutes per degree from the zone meridian), and ishtkaal expresses the time elapsed since sunrise in ghati (24 minutes), pala (24 seconds) and vipala (0.4 seconds). For a birth before sunrise, the count runs from the previous day's sunrise, because the Hindu day begins at sunrise.

Key terms

Paya (birth metal)

The metal (gold, silver, copper or iron) classically assigned from your birth nakshatra, read as an indicator of material fortune.

Varna, Gana & Nadi

Moon-based matching attributes: spiritual temperament (varna), nature (gana) and constitutional channel (nadi), scored in marriage compatibility.

Yoni & Vashya

The animal symbol of your nakshatra (yoni) and the dominance class of your Moon sign (vashya), both used in Ashta Koota matching.

Ishtkaal

Birth time in the classical units ghati, pala and vipala, counted from the governing sunrise. Written like 057-09-27.

Dasha balance

How much of the first Vimshottari mahadasha (ruled by your nakshatra lord) remained at the moment of birth.

Sidereal time & ayanamsa

Sidereal time positions the zodiac over your birthplace and fixes the ascendant; the ayanamsa is the offset between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is my Hindu weekday different from my civil weekday?

What does the dasha balance (for example, Jupiter 7Y 10M 25D) mean?

Why are my Indian and Western sun signs sometimes different?

What is ishtkaal and how do I read a value like 057-09-27?

What is the name syllable used for?