Your Janma Karana is the karana that was running at the exact moment of your birth. The karana is the fourth of the five limbs of the Panchang and is simply half of a tithi: a tithi spans 12° of the Moon's separation from the Sun, and each 6° half is one karana. A lunar month therefore holds 60 karanas, made from just 11 names.

Seven of them — Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila, Gara, Vanija, and Vishti — are chara (movable) karanas that rotate eight times through the month. The remaining four — Shakuni, Chatushpada, Naga, and Kimstughna — are sthira (fixed) karanas that each occur exactly once, around Amavasya. Every karana has a presiding lord and a classical symbol, and muhurta texts rate each as auspicious or inauspicious for starting work — Vishti (also called Bhadra) is the one karana avoided for all good muhurtas. The karana at birth is read as a fine shade of temperament within the birth tithi.

What this calculator shows

• Your birth karana (out of 60 in the lunar month) with its meaning
• Whether it is a movable (chara) or fixed (sthira) karana
• Its presiding lord, classical symbol, and auspicious or inauspicious nature
• Which half of which tithi you were born in, and how far it had progressed
• Sun and Moon positions, Moon sign, Nakshatra, and the full Panchang of the birth moment

For an accurate result, enter your exact time of birth and select your birth city from the dropdown so the coordinates and timezone are correct. A karana changes roughly every 9 to 12 hours, so the birth time matters. An inauspicious birth karana is not a verdict — it marks an intense temperament; consult a qualified astrologer to read it alongside the full chart.