Find your Arudha Lagna (the image the world projects onto you) and all 12 arudha padas from your date, time, and place of birth - with the classical 1st/7th exception shown transparently and a birth-time confidence check, using sidereal Lahiri ayanamsa. For the marriage pada on its own, use the Upapada Lagna calculator.
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Supports 1900 onwards for better calculation reliability.
Birth time matters here: the arudha padas hang off your rising sign, which changes about every 2 hours but can flip with a few minutes' error if you were born near a sign boundary - the tool flags how close you are.
Free Jaimini Upapada Lagna (UL) calculator from birth details: the marriage pada (arudha of the 12th house), derived step by step, with the 1st/7th exception shown and a birth-time-confidence check.
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astrology| Arudha Lagna (AL) | Arudha pada of the 1st house - your projected public image |
| Upapada Lagna (UL) | Arudha pada of the 12th house - marriage and the spouse |
| The arudha rule | Count house to its lord, then the same count again |
| 1st / 7th exception | Redirected to the 10th-from-pada (raw pada shown; not unanimous) |
| Lordship | Strict-classical; nodes (Rahu/Ketu) are never lords |
| How many padas | All 12 (one per house); everyone has them |
| Birth-time sensitivity | Padas hang off the rising sign; the tool flags boundary proximity |
| Required input | Date, time, and place of birth |
| Engine | Meeus VSOP87 + Lahiri ayanamsa (~0.3 deg typical) |
| Privacy | 100% client-side; no birth data leaves the browser |
| Cost | Free (Rs 0); no signup |
The Arudha Lagna (AL) is a concept from Jaimini astrology: the arudha pada of the 1st house. Where the rising sign (Lagna) describes who you actually are, the Arudha Lagna describes who the world thinks you are - your projected image, perceived status, and reputation, sometimes called the “maya” or illusion of the self. The two are read together, and the gap between them is itself meaningful.
The Arudha Lagna is a descriptive perspective on the chart. It is not a prediction, and a strong-looking AL is not a verdict - it is one lens among many in a full reading.
The arudha pada of any house is a two-step count. First, count - inclusively, in zodiac order - from the house to the sign its lord occupies. Then count that same number of signs forward again, starting from the lord’s sign. The sign you land on is the arudha pada. For the Arudha Lagna, the house is the 1st and the lord is your Lagna lord.
One classical rule modifies this: the pada is not allowed to rest in the house’s own sign (the 1st) or in the 7th from it. When the count lands in either, the pada is moved to the 10th sign from that pada - so a 1st-house landing becomes the 10th house, and a 7th landing becomes the 4th. This calculator applies that exception by default (per the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Chapter 29) but always shows the raw, pre-exception pada as well, so you can see what was redirected and follow either convention.
Worked example. Say your ascendant is Aries and your Lagna lord, Mars, sits in Cancer. Count inclusively from Aries to Cancer (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer) - that is 4 signs. Now count 4 signs on from Cancer (Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra), landing on Libra: the raw pada. But Libra is the 7th from Aries, so the rule redirects it to the 4th sign from Aries, Cancer. Your Arudha Lagna is Cancer (raw pada Libra, redirected). The Upapada Lagna works the same way from the 12th house.
Lordship here is strict-classical: each sign is ruled by one of the seven classical planets, and Rahu and Ketu are never sign lords (so Scorpio’s lord is Mars and Aquarius’s is Saturn).
Two of the twelve padas are read for relationships. The Upapada Lagna (UL, the A12 row above) is the arudha pada of the 12th house, read for marriage and the spouse. The Dara Pada (A7) is the arudha of the 7th house, which some traditions read alongside the Upapada as the partner or relationship image. Both are found by the same two-step count and the same 1st/7th exception as the Arudha Lagna, and both are descriptive cultural references - never predictions of marriage timing or of a specific partner.
For the marriage pada on its own - with a full step-by-step derivation, the 2nd-from-Upapada reading, and a marriage-focused explanation - use the dedicated Upapada Lagna calculator.
These are different things, and this is the most common confusion. Your rising sign (Lagna) is the sign on the eastern horizon at birth - your actual self and the anchor of your birth chart. The Arudha Lagna is a derived pada - the projected image of that self. Our Free Kundli Generator gives you the plain rising sign and the full D1 and D9 chart; this tool gives the arudha padas (the image lagna and the marriage lagna) that the Kundli does not output.
If you only want your Moon sign or Ascendant sign, the Rashi Calculator returns your Janma Rashi and Lagna Rashi from the same birth details. The Jaimini significator of the spouse, the Darakaraka, is a natural companion to the Upapada - our Chara Karaka Calculator ranks it and names its navamsa sign.
Because every arudha pada is built on the houses, and the houses are anchored to your rising sign, the padas shift if the rising sign changes. The rising sign changes roughly every two hours, but if you were born within a few minutes of a sign boundary, even a small error in your recorded birth time can move it - and with it your Arudha Lagna, Upapada Lagna, and the whole pada framework.
So the tool computes how many minutes your entered birth time sits from the nearest rising-sign boundary. When that figure is small, it shows what your AL and UL would be under the adjacent rising sign and how many of the 12 padas change, so you know whether to double-check your time. The same birth-time-confidence approach powers our Raj Yoga Calculator.
One honest limit: this version flags the rising-sign boundary only. There is a separate source of uncertainty - a house’s lord sitting within about 0.3 degrees of a sign edge (the engine’s typical accuracy, not a hard bound) - which can shift that house’s pada on its own, independently of your birth time. v1 does not yet recompute pada alternates for that case, so if you know a key planet is right on a sign boundary, treat its pada as provisional.
Every house has an arudha pada, and the tool lists all twelve (A1 through A12) with each house’s lord, the lord’s sign, the raw pada, the final pada, and whether the 1st/7th redirect fired. The Arudha Lagna is A1, the Upapada Lagna is A12, and the Dara Pada is A7.
An honest note on two common claims: it is sometimes said the Arudha Lagna can “never” fall in six houses. The firm, sourced rule is only that it cannot fall in the 1st or 7th from its house - those are redirected. A pada can perfectly well land in the 2nd, 6th, 8th, or 12th. And every chart has all twelve padas; they are positions derived from your chart, not rare blessings that only some people receive.
The Arudha Lagna (AL) is the arudha pada of the 1st house in Jaimini astrology. It represents your projected image - your perceived status, reputation, and the way the world sees you (sometimes called maya, or illusion) - as distinct from who you actually are, which is shown by the rising sign (Lagna) itself. It is a descriptive perspective on the chart, not a prediction.
Take the 1st house and its lord. Count (inclusively) from the house to the sign the lord occupies, then count the same number of signs forward again from the lord. The sign you land on is the raw arudha pada. The same two-step count gives the arudha pada of any house. This calculator does the counting for you and also shows the lord and its sign so you can follow it.
By a classical rule, the arudha pada is not allowed to fall in the house's own sign (the 1st) or the 7th from it. When the raw count lands there, the pada is redirected to the 10th sign from that raw pada - so the 1st becomes the 10th house and the 7th becomes the 4th. This is stated in the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Chapter 29, Bhava Padas, Santhanam edition) and is consistent with the Parijaata. It is not fully unanimous: a documented minority view applies the count without the exception. This tool applies the exception by default but always shows the raw pre-exception pada, so you can see exactly what was redirected.
The Upapada Lagna (UL) is the arudha pada of the 12th house, read for marriage and the spouse. It appears in the A12 row of the full pada table here, and it has its own dedicated tool with a step-by-step derivation, the 2nd-from-Upapada reading, and a marriage-focused explanation: the Upapada Lagna calculator at /astrology/upapada-lagna-calculator.
The Dara Pada (A7) is the arudha pada of the 7th house - the same two-step count and the same 1st/7th exception as the Arudha Lagna, applied to the 7th house and its lord. Some traditions read it alongside the Upapada Lagna as the partner or relationship image. This calculator computes it under the same strict-classical lordship as every other pada and shows it in the A7 row of the full table. Like all padas here, it is a descriptive cultural reference, not a prediction of marriage timing or of a specific partner.
This tool uses strict-classical lordship: each sign is ruled by one of the seven classical planets, and the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu are never treated as sign lords. Scorpio's lord is Mars and Aquarius's is Saturn. Some schools instead use a stronger co-lord (Ketu for Scorpio, Rahu for Aquarius) when it is stronger. That can shift the pada of any house that occupies Scorpio or Aquarius - for example the Arudha Lagna for a Scorpio or Aquarius ascendant, or the Upapada Lagna for a Sagittarius or Pisces ascendant (whose 12th house is Scorpio or Aquarius). It needs a planetary-strength model we do not compute, so it is disclosed but not used.
No. The Arudha Lagna is the projected image - how the world perceives you - not your actual self. Your real nature is read from the rising sign (Lagna) and the chart as a whole. The whole point of the AL is that the perceived image can differ from the reality.
Yes. Every chart has an arudha pada for each of the 12 houses - they are positions derived from the chart, not rare blessings that only some people have. The Arudha Lagna (A1) and Upapada Lagna (A12) are simply the two that are read most often.
Birth time matters because the arudha padas are built on the rising sign, which changes roughly every two hours but can flip with a few minutes' error if you were born near a sign boundary. The tool reports how many minutes you are from the nearest boundary and, when you are close, what your AL and UL would be under the adjacent rising sign. The engine uses Meeus-based VSOP87 with sidereal Lahiri ayanamsa, typically within about 0.3 degrees of observatory-grade ephemerides for dates from 1900 onwards.
This page is the canonical surface for these terms: Arudha Lagna, Aroodha Lagna, Pada Lagna, arudha pada, bhava pada, and Dara Pada. They all refer to the Jaimini padas described above. The Upapada Lagna (the marriage pada) has its own page, linked above.