Generate your Vedic Kundli, the sidereal birth chart at the heart of Jyotish. Enter your birth date, time and place and this calculator gives your Lagna, the Moon's rashi, your birth nakshatra and pada, and the rashi of every graha, using the Lahiri ayanamsa. It also returns the house placement of each planet so the chart can be drawn in the North or South Indian style.
What a Kundli Contains
The Kundli is built on the sidereal zodiac, which is tied to the fixed stars rather than the seasons. Its anchor is the Lagna, or Ascendant rashi, which begins the first house. From there each of the nine grahas, the seven planets plus Rahu and Ketu, sits in a rashi and a house. The Moon's position also gives your nakshatra, one of the twenty-seven lunar mansions, and its pada or quarter.
Why the Sidereal Zodiac
Vedic astrology uses the Lahiri ayanamsa to shift from the tropical to the sidereal zodiac, accounting for the slow precession of the equinoxes. This is why a Kundli often places the same planet in a different sign than a Western chart would. The nakshatra and the Lagna it produces are the foundation for matching, the dasha timeline and most Vedic predictive work.
Using Your Kundli
Your Kundli is the starting point for the other Vedic tools here. The Moon's nakshatra feeds the Vimshottari Dasha and Kundli Matching, the Lagna anchors Mangal Dosha and Ashtakavarga, and the planet placements support Lal Kitab and KP readings. An exact birth time and place are essential, because the Lagna changes every couple of hours.
The Lagna Sets the Frame
The Lagna, or Ascendant, is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, and it anchors the first house and the whole house framework that follows. Because it turns roughly every two hours, your birth time is essential: a difference of a few hours can move the Lagna to the next sign and reshuffle every house in the chart.
North and South Layouts
The same Kundli can be drawn two ways. The North Indian style fixes the houses in a diamond and lets the signs move, while the South Indian style fixes the signs in a grid and lets the houses move. They hold identical information in different shapes, and the calculator can show the chart either way, so you can read it in whichever layout you grew up with.
The Moon's Special Place
Vedic astrology leans on the Moon far more than the Sun, which is why the Kundli highlights the Moon's rashi and its nakshatra with the pada. Many traditional readings, from compatibility to dasha timing, start from the birth Moon rather than the Sun sign, so these details sit at the heart of the chart rather than to one side.
How the Kundli compares to related charts
This Kundli is the full sidereal (Vedic) birth chart, showing your Lagna, Moon rashi, nakshatra and the grahas across the houses. The Western birth chart covers the same birth data in the tropical zodiac on a circular wheel. If you only need the planet positions as a table, use planetary positions; if you only need the ascendant, the rising sign calculator is quicker.
Vedic Kundli Questions
What is a Kundli?
A Kundli is a Vedic birth chart cast in the sidereal zodiac. It shows your Lagna, the rashi and house of every graha, and your Moon's nakshatra and pada, and is the basis of Jyotish analysis.
What is the difference from a Western chart?
A Kundli uses the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, tied to the stars, while a Western chart uses the tropical zodiac tied to the seasons. The same planet can therefore fall in a different sign in each.
What details do I need?
You need your birth date, exact birth time with timezone, and birthplace. The time and place set the Lagna and the houses, which change every couple of hours, so accuracy matters.
Positions are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris. Astrological interpretations are traditional and are offered for reflection, not as guaranteed predictions.
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