Panchang
16 August 2026

It should be. We use the sidereal zodiac with Lahiri ayanamsa and whole sign bhavas, which is what most Indian astrologers use. Check your lagna and your Moon’s nakshatra against the kundli you already have at home. Those two go wrong first if a site is using different settings. Month names follow the Purnimanta system used across North India.

Usually because the other site is giving you the Sun sign from Western astrology, or is using a different ayanamsa. In Jyotish your rashi is your Moon sign, and the two systems sit about 24 degrees apart. That is why your Vedic rashi is often the one just before the newspaper one.

Vimshottari dasha divides your life into planetary periods totalling 120 years, starting from the nakshatra your Moon was in at birth. Think of the mahadasha as the season, the antardasha as the weather inside it, and the pratyantardasha as the day itself. It is the main reason two people with similar charts get very different years.

Your kundli is the sky at the moment you were born, and it never changes. Gochar is where the planets are now, read from your birth Moon: which bhava Saturn is crossing, whether you are in Sade Sati, what Jupiter is aspecting this month. The kundli says what you carry. Gochar says what is happening now.

Ashtakoot compares two charts on eight kootas weighted one to eight, and the weights matter more than the total. Nadi alone is worth eight, so two charts can total 24 and still be refused on Nadi dosha, while a 22 with every koota clean is often read as the better match. We show all eight broken out rather than just the number.