Vedic KundaliVedic Kundali
Sign in

Sources

The readings on this site follow the classical texts below, and the charts and dates are worked out from the sky itself.

Classical texts

  • Brihat Jataka (Varahamihira)Varahamihira's work on birth charts, written at Ujjain in the 6th century. It is short and exact, and it is still read for what each graha gives in each sign and house.
  • Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Maharishi Parashara)The founding text of Vedic astrology, attributed to the sage Parashara. The houses, the yogas, the Vimshottari dasha and the divisional charts used on this site all go back to it.
  • Brihat Samhita (Varahamihira)Varahamihira's encyclopaedia of omens, eclipses, weather, building and gems, and the classical source for reading nations and world events.
  • Jaimini Sutras (Maharishi Jaimini)Brief aphorisms that set out a second system of Jyotish, with aspects between signs and the chara karakas such as the atmakaraka.
  • Jataka Parijata (Vaidyanatha Dikshita)A late medieval South Indian compilation on birth charts, often cited for yogas and for the results of each house.
  • Muhurta Chintamani (Rama Daivajna)The standard text on muhurta, the choice of a good time for a marriage, a journey, a house and other undertakings, written at Kashi around 1600.
  • Phaladeepika (Mantreswara)Mantreswara's handbook of results from South India, widely used for the effects of the grahas, of yogas and of transits counted from the Moon.
  • Saravali (Kalyana Varma)A large early medieval collection by Kalyana Varma, unusually detailed on two, three and more grahas sharing a sign, which is why the conjunction pages lean on it.
  • Uttara Kalamrita (Kalidasa)A later text on the houses, often quoted for the list of things each house rules.

Planetary positions

Positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris, a high-precision astronomical library built on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ephemerides. They are turned into the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsha, the standard adopted by the Government of India’s Calendar Reform Committee in 1955. Rahu and Ketu are the mean nodes. Times are given in Indian Standard Time unless a page says otherwise.