Nakshatra Calculator — Find Your Birth Nakshatra, Pada, Rashi and Name Letter

Use the Nakshatra calculator: enter your date, time and place of birth to find your birth nakshatra, its pada, your Moon sign (Janma Rashi), the nakshatra lord and the first letter for a name — along with gana, yoni, nadi, varna and vashya, which are used in Kundli matching. Even without a time of birth you get an approximate result.

What is a nakshatra?

The 360° of the sky is divided into 27 equal parts — each 13°20′ part is a nakshatra. The nakshatra in which the Moon stands at birth is your birth nakshatra. Naming, Vimshottari dasha, Kundli matching and many muhurats are set from it.

What the Nakshatra calculator shows

• Birth nakshatra and pada (1 to 4)
• Moon sign — used for horoscopes
• Nakshatra lord — the planet of your first Mahadasha
• First letter for a name — by pada, with all four letters of the nakshatra
• Gana, Yoni, Nadi, Varna, Vashya — the basis of guna matching
• Sun sign (by Vedic calculation)

All 27 nakshatras: lord, rashi and name letters

The table lists each nakshatra’s ruling planet, the rashi it falls in, and the name syllables of its four padas. Knowing the nakshatra, you can choose a child’s name from these letters.

Nakshatra	Lord	Rashi	Name letters
Ashwini	Ketu	Aries	चू, चे, चो, ला
Bharani	Venus	Aries	ली, लू, ले, लो
Krittika	Sun	Aries / Taurus	अ, ई, उ, ए
Rohini	Moon	Taurus	ओ, वा, वी, वू
Mrigashira	Mars	Taurus / Gemini	वे, वो, का, की
Ardra	Rahu	Gemini	कू, घ, ङ, छ
Punarvasu	Jupiter	Gemini / Cancer	के, को, हा, ही
Pushya	Saturn	Cancer	हू, हे, हो, डा
Ashlesha	Mercury	Cancer	डी, डू, डे, डो
Magha	Ketu	Leo	मा, मी, मू, मे
Purva Phalguni	Venus	Leo	मो, टा, टी, टू
Uttara Phalguni	Sun	Leo / Virgo	टे, टो, पा, पी
Hasta	Moon	Virgo	पू, ष, ण, ठ
Chitra	Mars	Virgo / Libra	पे, पो, रा, री
Swati	Rahu	Libra	रू, रे, रो, ता
Vishakha	Jupiter	Libra / Scorpio	ती, तू, ते, तो
Anuradha	Saturn	Scorpio	ना, नी, नू, ने
Jyeshtha	Mercury	Scorpio	नो, या, यी, यू
Mula	Ketu	Sagittarius	ये, यो, भा, भी
Purva Ashadha	Venus	Sagittarius	भू, धा, फा, ढा
Uttara Ashadha	Sun	Sagittarius / Capricorn	भे, भो, जा, जी
Shravana	Moon	Capricorn	खी, खू, खे, खो
Dhanishta	Mars	Capricorn / Aquarius	गा, गी, गू, गे
Shatabhisha	Rahu	Aquarius	गो, सा, सी, सू
Purva Bhadrapada	Jupiter	Aquarius / Pisces	से, सो, दा, दी
Uttara Bhadrapada	Saturn	Pisces	दू, थ, झ, ञ
Revati	Mercury	Pisces	दे, दो, चा, ची

Nakshatra and naming

In Indian tradition a child is named with the syllable of the birth nakshatra’s pada — the naam rashi or nakshatra name. For example, a child born in the third pada of Krittika is named with “U” (such as Umesh or Urmila). To find a rashi from a name alone, see Rashi by name.

Nakshatra lord and dasha

Each nakshatra has a ruling planet, and the nine grahas rule the 27 nakshatras three times in order — Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury. The lord of your birth nakshatra is the planet of your first Vimshottari Mahadasha. To see the full dasha, make your free Kundli.

Gandmool nakshatras

Six nakshatras — Ashwini, Ashlesha, Magha, Jyeshtha, Mula and Revati — are called Gandmool, as they fall at the junction of a sign and a nakshatra. By tradition a Gandmool shanti puja is done for a child born in them, about 27 days after birth when the Moon returns to the same nakshatra.

Panchak nakshatras

When the Moon is in Aquarius and Pisces — the last two padas of Dhanishta, Shatabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati — this roughly five-day period is called Panchak, when some activities are traditionally avoided. See today’s nakshatra in Today’s Panchang.

Gana, Yoni and Nadi

Each nakshatra has a gana (Deva, Manushya or Rakshasa), a yoni (one of 14 animals) and a nadi (Aadi, Madhya or Antya). These are what Kundli Milan checks at marriage — for example, the same nadi for both means Nadi dosh.

Read more: Nakshatra – Wikipedia.

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