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Panchang means five limbs, and those five name a day in the Hindu calendar: the weekday, the lunar day, the Moon's nakshatra, the yoga formed by the Sun and Moon together, and the karana. This computes all five for your birth date at your birth place, which is why the answer can differ from a printed almanac for another city.
Vara is the weekday and its planetary lord. Tithi is the lunar day, one thirtieth of the gap from new Moon to new Moon and back. Nakshatra is which of the twenty-seven lunar mansions the Moon occupied. Yoga is a separate cycle of twenty-seven formed by adding the Sun's and Moon's longitudes together. Karana is half a tithi, and there are eleven of them, four fixed and seven that repeat.
A panchang is reckoned from sunrise, and sunrise happens at different clock times in different places. Two people born on the same date in Chennai and in Amritsar can be given different tithis because the day boundary itself sits at a different moment for each. That is why a birth panchang asks for a place and not only a date.
Of the five, the birth nakshatra is the one that reaches furthest into a chart. It fixes the starting point of the Vimshottari dasha, which is the timeline every Vedic prediction hangs on, and it carries the traditional syllables used for naming a child. The other four describe the day; the nakshatra describes the life.
It is not a fortune and it is not a verdict. There is a long folk tradition of calling certain tithis or yogas inauspicious, and used carelessly that turns into telling someone their birth was unlucky, which this site will not do. The panchang describes the sky on a day. What it is genuinely used for is naming, observance and choosing timings, not for judging a person.
Vara is the weekday and its planetary lord. Tithi is the lunar day, one thirtieth of the gap from new Moon to new Moon and back. Nakshatra is which of the twenty-seven lunar mansions the Moon occupied. Yoga is a separate cycle of twenty-seven formed by adding the Sun's and Moon's longitudes together. Karana is half a tithi, and there are eleven of them, four fixed and seven that repeat.
A panchang is reckoned from sunrise, and sunrise happens at different clock times in different places. Two people born on the same date in Chennai and in Amritsar can be given different tithis because the day boundary itself sits at a different moment for each. That is why a birth panchang asks for a place and not only a date.
Of the five, the birth nakshatra is the one that reaches furthest into a chart. It fixes the starting point of the Vimshottari dasha, which is the timeline every Vedic prediction hangs on, and it carries the traditional syllables used for naming a child. The other four describe the day; the nakshatra describes the life.
It is not a fortune and it is not a verdict. There is a long folk tradition of calling certain tithis or yogas inauspicious, and used carelessly that turns into telling someone their birth was unlucky, which this site will not do. The panchang describes the sky on a day. What it is genuinely used for is naming, observance and choosing timings, not for judging a person.
Enter your birth date, time and place above. The tithi is computed from the actual Sun and Moon positions for your location, reckoned from that day's sunrise, which is how a panchang is traditionally cast.
Most often because of the place, or because a tithi changed during the day. A tithi can end at any hour, so a birth in the afternoon may fall under a different tithi from the one the day is named after in an almanac printed for another city.
A cycle of twenty-seven divisions formed by adding the Sun's and Moon's longitudes and dividing the total. It is unrelated to the yogas of a birth chart, which are planetary combinations. The shared word causes a lot of confusion.
The tradition names some as less suitable for starting particular activities, which is a statement about timing, not about a person. Nobody's birth is unlucky, and any reading that tells you otherwise has crossed from astrology into something else.
ShukrAI computes from your real birth chart with the Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri ayanamsa. It is for reflection and self-understanding, is never a prediction of doom, and is not a substitute for professional advice.
