Who Created Janmakshar
Janmakshar was inspired directly by my father, who has spent 29 years working as a practicing astrologer. For most of that time, matching Janmakshar and Kundli charts before a marriage was something he did the traditional way — by hand, with birth details, panchang references, and years of pattern recognition that don't show up in any textbook.
I built Janmakshar because I watched that process happen many times over the years and realized how much of it could be made accessible online without losing what actually makes it useful: not just a number, but an explanation a family can actually understand and trust.
What 29 Years of Experience Actually Changed
Building an astrology calculator is, on its own, a solved technical problem — the Ashtakoota system has been documented for centuries. What's harder to get right is which parts of a result matter to a real family, and how to explain a score without either oversimplifying it into meaninglessness or burying it in jargon. That's the part this tool inherited from practical experience rather than a textbook: the structure of the result page, the plain-language explanation next to each Koota, and the decision to show Manglik separately from the Guna score are all shaped by decades of actually walking families through this conversation.
How the Traditional Process Became Software
The underlying methodology is unchanged from what's been used for generations: sidereal planetary positions, the Lahiri Ayanamsa, and the traditional eight-Koota Ashtakoota comparison worth 36 points, calculated from each partner's date, time, and place of birth. What changed is the delivery — instead of waiting for an appointment, entering two people's birth details takes a few minutes, and a calculation that used to take a skilled hand and a set of reference tables now happens instantly, with the same traditional rules underneath it.
What Janmakshar Calculates
Each partner's Moon position (Rashi, Nakshatra, and Pada) is calculated from their birth details, then both charts are compared across the eight traditional Kootas — Varna, Vashya, Tara, Yoni, Graha Maitri, Gana, Bhakoot, and Nadi — for a score out of 36. Alongside the Guna score, we run a Dosha analysis covering Nadi and Bhakoot, plus a simplified Manglik (Mangal Dosha) indicator shown separately, since it traditionally answers a different question than the Guna total.
What Janmakshar Does Not Claim
We don't claim a Guna score predicts whether a marriage will be happy, and we don't claim this tool replaces a conversation with a qualified astrologer for a genuinely complicated chart — cases with cancellation rules, boundary Nakshatras, or family-specific traditions that a calculator alone can't fully weigh. Astrology is a traditional belief system passed down through generations, not a scientifically proven predictor of relationship outcomes, and we say so clearly on the result page itself, not just in the fine print. Janmakshar gives you the traditional starting point; for anything borderline, that's exactly when 29 years of hands-on experience matters more than software.
What We Care About
- Privacy first. The birth details you enter are used only to calculate your result. See our Privacy Policy for the full details of how this works.
- No unnecessary signup. You can get a complete, detailed result without creating an account.
- Plain language. Every score comes with an explanation of what it actually means — not just a raw number out of 36.
- Built for the whole family. Janmakshar is available in English, Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati, since "Janmakshar" itself is the term families in Gujarati- and Marathi-speaking communities actually use for this process.
Get in Touch
We'd genuinely like to hear from you — whether it's a bug, a suggestion, or just feedback on your result. Reach us any time at consult@janmakshar.org.