Put in your birth date, time and place. The calculator places your lagna and all nine grahas in their daśāṁśa aṁśas and gives the dikpāla, the guardian of a direction, who rules each one, as Parāśara lists them.
How it works
The daśāṁśa, D10, divides each sign into ten parts of 3° each. Parāśara gives it for mahat phala, the great results of a life, in Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 7.3, and most astrologers read it for work and position. Each part has a guardian of a direction, a dikpāla, from Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 6.13–14.
In an odd sign the dikpālas run from the east: Indra, Agni, Yama, Rākṣasa, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Kubera and Īśāna round the eight directions, then Brahmā above and Ananta below. In an even sign the order is reversed, so Ananta rules the first 3° and Indra the last. The D10 sign is counted from the sign itself in an odd sign and from the 9th sign in an even one, one sign for each 3°.
The lagna crosses 3° in about twelve minutes of clock time on average, so the calculator gives the minutes and seconds to its next aṁśa either way, and marks any graha within 3′ of an edge. If your birth time is not that exact, read the neighbouring deities too. The vimśāṁśa deities are in the D20 chart calculator. Positions use the True Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa and the mean node unless you choose the true one. Nothing you enter here leaves your browser.
