Free Kundli Online by Date of Birth – Your Janam Kundli

What You Get in This Free Kundli Report

Prepared by the GrahaDisha editorial team · Updated 19 October 2026

What Is a Kundli?

A Kundli is a snapshot of the sky at the time and place you were born. The diamond-shaped D1 chart is only the picture. Behind it sit the rising sign, the house each planet occupies, every planet's degree and Nakshatra, and the Dasha periods worked out from the Moon.

You can't make a proper Janam Kundli from the birth date alone. The time and place fix the rising sign and the houses, so two children born on the same day in different cities, or a few hours apart in one city, can end up with different charts.

Janam Kundli, Janam Patri, Kundali, Birth Chart: Is There a Difference?

No. The same document goes by different names depending on who you ask. Janam Kundli and Janam Kundali are the usual spellings across much of north India. Janam Patri or Janam Patrika is what many families say at home, especially in Hindi-speaking households. Jatakam and Jathakam are heard across the south, and English-language astrologers tend to say Vedic birth chart, natal chart or simply horoscope.

Regions differ mostly in drawing style; the astronomy is the same. A newspaper "horoscope" is something else: a general forecast for everyone born under one sign, while your Kundli is built from the exact minute and place you were born.

How to Generate Your Free Kundli on GrahaDisha

1. Add your name and gender. Your name helps you identify the chart when you return to it later.
2. Choose your birth date. Use the date from an official document, if one is available.
3. Add your birth time. Use the exact recorded time if you know it; avoid rounding it from memory.
4. Choose your birthplace. Select the correct city suggestion so its coordinates match your place of birth.
5. Click "Generate My Kundli." Your charts and supporting tables will appear on the same page.

Ayanamsa and Calculation System Used

GrahaDisha creates this Kundli using Swiss Ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The chart uses whole-sign houses and the true lunar node for Rahu; Ketu is placed 180 degrees opposite Rahu. Vimshottari Dasha starts from the Moon's Nakshatra position. See Astrodienst's Lahiri sidereal ephemeris reference for more about this setting.

If your chart differs from one on another site, check these settings first. Raman, KP or a tropical zodiac can give different degrees, house cusps and Dasha dates from the same birth details.

North Indian vs South Indian Kundli: Which Style Is This?

The chart on this page is drawn in the North Indian style, the familiar square divided into diamonds and triangles. In that layout the houses stay put and the signs rotate around them. The first house is always the diamond at the top centre, and the sign number written inside it tells you which sign is rising.

Neither style is more accurate. Both carry the same information.

The 12 Houses of Your Birth Chart

The chart has 12 houses, known as Bhavas. Astrologers traditionally associate each one with a different part of life:

Kendra, Trikona, Dusthana and Upachaya: Grouping the Houses

Astrologers rarely read the twelve houses one at a time. They sort them into families, because the family a planet sits in says a lot about how forcefully it can act.

These are traditional classifications and schools differ on the finer points. No house is good or bad in isolation; what matters is who occupies it, who rules it and which Dasha is running.

The 12 Rashis (Zodiac Signs) and Their Ruling Planets

Every house in your chart is filled by one of twelve signs, called Rashis, and each sign has a ruling planet. The ruler matters because a planet's strength is judged partly by whose sign it is standing in. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, so the signs here can differ from the ones in a Western horoscope.

Lagna, Moon Sign and Sun Sign: Which One Is "Your" Sign?

Ask three astrologers "what's my Rashi?" and you might get three answers, because three different signs are in play:

A simple way to keep them straight: the Lagna gives the chart its layout, the Moon sign gives it its timing, and the Sun sign is the one you mostly meet at parties.

The 9 Planets (Navagraha) and What They Signify

A planet's meaning depends on more than its name. Its sign, its house, the other planets it touches and the running Dasha all change how an astrologer reads it.

Rahu and Ketu are not bodies you could point a telescope at. They are the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's apparent path, known as the north and south lunar nodes, which is why Ketu always sits exactly opposite Rahu. Eclipses happen near these points, and that's a big reason Jyotish treats them as powerful.

The 27 Nakshatras and Their Lords

The zodiac is also divided into 27 Nakshatras, or lunar mansions, of 13°20′ each, and every Nakshatra splits into four padas of 3°20′. Your birth Nakshatra is simply the one the Moon was crossing when you were born. It matters for two practical reasons: it sets the starting point of your Vimshottari Dasha, and it's the traditional basis for the first syllable of a baby's name.

The Moon covers roughly 13 degrees a day, so it takes about a day to cross one Nakshatra and about six hours to cross one pada. That's why a few hours of error in birth time can change your pada, and if you were born near a boundary, your Nakshatra too.

Notice that the lords repeat in one fixed order (Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury) three times around the zodiac. It's the same order as the Dasha sequence, which is why knowing the Moon's Nakshatra immediately tells you which Mahadasha you were born into.

D1 (Lagna) Chart vs D9 (Navamsa) Chart

Start with the D1. It is the main birth chart and shows the twelve houses used for an overall reading. You can also explore the Vedic birth chart and divisional charts separately. The D9 is a divisional chart traditionally consulted for marriage, dharma and the underlying strength of planets. A common beginner's mistake is to read the D9 as a second horoscope. Use it to check what you already see in the D1.

A Practical Order for Reading Your Report

Here is a practical order for working through the report:

What ℞, ☉ and V Mean Beside a Planet's Name

When your report loads, some planets carry a small marker next to their name. Here is what each one means.

Use these markers as prompts to look closer. A retrograde Saturn or a combust Mercury still has to be read with its house, sign and Dasha before anyone draws a conclusion.

Understanding the Vimshottari Dasha Sequence

Vimshottari Dasha is a 120-year sequence of planetary periods. A Mahadasha is divided into Antardasha, Pratyantardasha and still smaller periods. Astrologers use this timeline to discuss when themes seen elsewhere in a chart may become more noticeable.

The Dasha tab lets you expand the sequence down to Sookshma and Prana. These are traditional periods, and no event is guaranteed to fall on a given date.

How Long Does Each Mahadasha Last?

Every Mahadasha has a fixed length, and together the nine add up to 120 years. You don't start at the beginning of the cycle. You start in the period of whichever planet rules your Moon's Nakshatra, with only the unspent part of that period remaining.

Ashtakavarga: Scoring the Strength of Every House

Ashtakavarga is a traditional points system for comparing signs and houses. An astrologer may check a transit's score alongside the birth chart and Dasha instead of reading the transit alone. A higher score is generally read as more supportive, though it is only one input.

Yogas: Planet Combinations Astrologers Look For

A yoga is a specific planetary pattern that the classical texts link with a particular outcome. Your free report doesn't label yogas for you, but with the planet table open you can spot a few of the simplest ones yourself.

This table is a vocabulary list. Whether a yoga actually delivers depends on the planets' strength, the Dasha running and whether something else in the chart cancels it. Budhaditya is a good example: it's extremely common, because Mercury never wanders more than about 28 degrees from the Sun, so having it is not remarkable by itself.

Common Doshas Checked in a Kundli

Mangal Dosha (also called Manglik Dosha) is checked from the position of Mars in relation to the Ascendant and, in some traditions, the Moon and Venus. The houses most often counted are the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th and 12th, and some schools add the 2nd. Astrologers also look for cancellation conditions before reaching a conclusion, so a Mars placement alone settles very little.

Kaal Sarp Dosha is commonly described as a chart in which the planets fall between Rahu and Ketu. Definitions vary, so it should be checked using a clearly stated rule instead of treated as an automatic sign of hardship.

Pitra Dosha is a traditional idea connected with ancestors. Different schools use different combinations involving the Sun, Rahu, Ketu and the ninth house.

Shani Sade Sati is the period in which Saturn moves through the sign before the natal Moon, the Moon sign itself and the following sign. It lasts roughly seven and a half years and is interpreted from the full chart, not from the label alone.

Where to Look in a Kundli for Marriage, Career, Money and Health

Most people open a Kundli with a question in mind. These are the places astrologers traditionally begin. They are starting points for your own reading.

How to Get the Most Accurate Kundli

The most important input is the birth time. A birth certificate, hospital record or written family record is more useful than a time recalled from memory. If you only know an approximate time, remember that the rising sign and house distribution may shift. The selected birthplace matters as well because its coordinates are part of the calculation.

Don't draw a final conclusion from one placement or one divisional chart. A traditional reading compares the D1 with the relevant supporting chart, then looks at the Dasha and transits.

What If You Don't Know Your Birth Time?

It happens all the time, particularly for people born at home, in small towns or before hospital records were routine. You still have options:

• Look for a written record. Hospital papers, municipal birth registers, school admission forms and an old Janam Patri made by a family pandit all sometimes carry a time. Ask the oldest relatives who were present.
• Know what stays reliable. Slow planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu and Ketu) hold their signs for months or years, and the Moon changes sign only every two and a quarter days or so, so the Moon sign is right for most birthdays even without a time. The Lagna, house placements, D9 chart and Dasha dates are the parts that fall apart.
• Be wary of a placeholder time. Some people enter 12:00 noon just to get a chart. That's fine for looking at signs, but the houses it shows are then arbitrary, so don't read anything into them.
• Consider birth-time rectification. An experienced astrologer can narrow the time by matching major life events against Dasha periods. The method is judgement-heavy, so results vary from one practitioner to another.

Five Mistakes That Quietly Ruin a Kundli

• Mixing up AM and PM. The form uses a 12-hour clock. 12:30 AM is just after midnight and 12:30 PM is just after noon. Swapping AM and PM moves the Ascendant roughly six signs away, and the chart will still look perfectly believable.
• Picking the wrong town. Plenty of place names repeat across districts and states. Choose the suggestion that shows the right district or state, because the coordinates come with it.
• Using a rounded time. "Around 6 in the morning" or a time written down to the nearest hour is a guess. Check your Lagna degree in the report: if it sits very close to the start or end of a sign, even a few minutes of error can change the rising sign.
• Getting the date wrong after midnight. A baby born at 1:30 AM on the 15th was born on the 15th, even if the family remembers it as "the night of the 14th." Enter the calendar date on the birth record.
• Comparing charts without checking settings. A Lahiri chart and a Raman or tropical chart of the same person will not match. Compare the ayanamsa and house system before deciding that one calculator is wrong.

How Your Birth Data Is Handled

Your birth details are submitted privately by POST and exchanged for a random, short-lived result reference, so your name, date, place and coordinates do not appear in the result URL. Anonymous result data remains in the server session for up to 30 minutes. For convenience, generated Kundlis may be saved in your browser for up to 90 days, or in your GrahaDisha account until you delete them from "Previous Kundlis." The calculation service receives the numeric birth date, time and coordinates needed to create the chart; it does not receive the name or birthplace text from this page.

जन्म कुंडली क्या है और कैसे बनाएं? (Kundli in Hindi)

जन्म कुंडली, जिसे जन्म पत्रिका या जन्मपत्री भी कहते हैं, आपके जन्म के क्षण में आकाश की एक तस्वीर है। इसमें दिखाया जाता है कि उस समय लग्न कौन-सा था और सूर्य, चंद्र, मंगल, बुध, गुरु, शुक्र, शनि, राहु और केतु किन राशियों और भावों में स्थित थे।

कुंडली बनाने के लिए तीन जानकारियां चाहिए: जन्म की तारीख, जन्म का सही समय और जन्म का स्थान। इनमें सबसे ज़्यादा ध्यान समय पर दें, क्योंकि लग्न औसतन हर दो घंटे में बदल जाता है। ऊपर के फ़ॉर्म में अपना नाम, लिंग, जन्म तिथि, समय (AM/PM के साथ) और जन्म स्थान भरें और "Generate My Kundli" पर क्लिक करें। लग्न कुंडली, नवांश (D9) कुंडली, ग्रहों की स्थिति, नक्षत्र, विंशोत्तरी दशा, गोचर और अष्टकवर्ग एक ही पेज पर मिल जाएंगे।

ध्यान रखें कि ज्योतिष एक पारंपरिक विद्या है। कुंडली को अपने बारे में सोचने-समझने का साधन मानें, चिकित्सा, कानूनी या आर्थिक फ़ैसलों का आधार नहीं।

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