Telugu Jathakam & Panchangam

Telugu Jathakam, made from your birth details

A Telugu Jathakam is the birth chart every Telugu family prepares for a child: the Rashi, Nakshatra, Lagna and the position of all nine grahas at the exact moment of birth. It's the reference used later for naming, marriage matching, and choosing dates for ceremonies. Enter your date, time and place of birth above and this tool computes your telugu jathakam online in a few seconds, with every value shown in Telugu script next to its English name, the way a family priest or a printed almanac would present it, not as a translated afterthought.

The chart is calculated fresh for every request using the Lahiri sidereal system and the Swiss Ephemeris, the same reference astronomy that professional Vedic astrology software is built on. There's no canned lookup table behind it: the Sun, Moon and planetary positions come from the actual date, time and coordinates you give it.

What your Jathakam shows

Rashi is your Moon sign, one of twelve, and the one most people mean when they ask "what's your telugu rashi". Because it depends on the Moon and not the Sun, it can only be found from date and time together, not date alone. Nakshatra is one of 27 lunar constellations the Moon occupied at your birth, further divided into four Padas; it's what a Namakaranam name letter and a marriage Porutham comparison are both built from. Lagna, the ascendant, is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at your exact birth moment. It changes roughly every two hours, so it's the value most sensitive to an inaccurate birth time. Alongside these, the tool draws the Rashi Chakra (the square South Indian chart), lists your birth Tithi and every graha's sidereal sign, the full set a priest or astrologer needs to read a chart or check a telugu jathakam for marriage.

Today's Panchangam

The panel next to the form shows today panchangam: the Vaara (weekday), Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga and Karana for today, with sunrise, sunset and the day's Rahu Kalam, Yamagandam, Gulika Kalam and Abhijit Muhurta windows drawn on a daylight timeline. It's a quick daily reference even if you don't need a full chart, useful for checking what Tithi it is before a fast, a puja, or planning around an upcoming Ekadashi. For any other date, past or future, open the Panchangam page.

Built for one Telugu family, not four separate tools

Most Telugu astrology sites split a birth chart, a daily Panchangam, wedding Muhurtham dates and baby name suggestions across separate, disconnected pages, sometimes separate sites entirely. Jathakam Pro is built around one calculation engine so those stay connected: your Nakshatra from your Jathakam is the same Nakshatra the Baby Names finder uses to pick a Namakaranam starting letter, and the same daily Tithi and Nakshatra that the Muhurtham finder scans to shortlist telugu marriage muhurtham dates and gruha pravesham muhurtham dates over the next 3 to 12 months. The Tithi and Vrat guide explains the lunar calendar those dates come from.

Limitations, honestly

Birth time accuracy matters most for Lagna and Nakshatra Pada; if you only have an approximate time, treat those two values as approximate too. The place-of-birth search above covers around 160 Telugu-region and major Indian cities with fixed coordinates rather than a full geocoder, if your town isn't listed, pick the nearest city, the difference in longitude rarely changes the chart. Times are assumed IST (UTC+5:30); if you were born elsewhere, convert to IST first. And this tool computes the chart, it doesn't interpret it, for guidance on what a specific placement means, pair the result with a priest or astrologer's reading.

Who this is for

Parents preparing a Jathakam for a newborn, someone who needs their own chart for a marriage discussion, or a family that just wants to know today's Tithi before a fast or a puja all land in the same place here. It also works well as a quick reference before a visit to a priest or astrologer: generate the chart first, so the conversation starts from Rashi, Nakshatra and Lagna already in hand rather than spending the first few minutes calculating them by hand from a printed table.

If you're comparing two charts for a telugu jathakam matching conversation, generate each person's Jathakam separately using their own birth details, then note down both Rashis and Nakshatras. Full ten-point Porutham matching is a separate, deeper comparison a priest or astrologer usually does by hand, but the Rashi and Nakshatra this tool gives you are the two inputs that matching starts from.

How the calculation works

Behind the form, the birth date, time and place are converted to Julian Day and fed to the Swiss Ephemeris to get the Sun, Moon and planetary positions at that instant, first in the tropical zodiac, then shifted to the Lahiri sidereal zodiac that Telugu and other Vedic astrology traditions use. The Lahiri ayanamsa (the offset between the two zodiacs) grows by roughly 50 arcseconds a year, so a tropical calculation and a sidereal one for the same birth moment place the Moon in noticeably different signs. That distinction is also why a telugu jathakam by date of birth alone, without a time, can only give you an approximate Rashi and Tithi: Lagna and the Moon's exact Nakshatra Pada both need the time to pin down precisely.