Check whether a debilitated planet’s debilitation is cancelled - Neecha Bhanga (neech bhang) - from date, time, and place of birth. For each debilitated planet the tool tests a documented, tiered set of cancellation conditions, lists which fire (grouped by source), and reports whether the lordship precondition for the raja grade is met. A cancellation is a precondition that can lead to a Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga, not a guaranteed one, so it is always shown as Neecha Bhanga, never as a confirmed Raj Yoga. Uses sidereal Lahiri ayanamsa, the same engine as our Kundli generator.
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Supports 1900 onwards for better calculation reliability.
Neecha Bhanga is read from where the dispositor and other planets fall relative to your Lagna (ascendant) and Moon. The Lagna changes about every 2 hours, so enter your birth time as precisely as you can - the tool tells you how close you are to a Lagna boundary.
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astrology| Input | Date, time, and place of birth (no name or gender needed) |
|---|---|
| Detects | Whether each debilitated planet’s debilitation is cancelled (Neecha Bhanga), by a tiered condition set - and shows uncancelled debilitations honestly |
| Conditions checked | 12 firing conditions across 3 tiers: 5 canonical (Phaladeepika Ch. 7), 6 later-practice, 1 contested (retrograde) |
| What the count means | Descriptive only - the fired conditions are listed by tier, never summed into a strength score |
| Base rate | About 45.45% of sampled instants carry at least one cancellation - common, not special |
| Raja grade | The kendra/trikona lordship precondition is surfaced; the full grade (strength + dasha) is not evaluated, so no chart is ever named a Raj Yoga |
| Birth-time sensitivity | High - the kendra houses the conditions read from move with the Lagna (about one sign every two hours) |
| Engine | MIT-licensed Meeus / VSOP87 (astronomia); Lahiri ayanamsa; whole-sign houses (same as Kundli) |
| Accuracy | About 0.3 deg vs Swiss Ephemeris (1900 onwards); a cancellation whose depended-on placement is within 0.3 deg of a boundary - a sign edge, or a navamsa (D9) pada edge - is flagged provisional |
| Remedies | None - this is a classification tool, not advisory |
| Privacy / cost | 100% client-side; no data leaves the browser; free |
Neecha Bhanga - written neech bhang in Hindi transliteration - literally means “cancellation of debilitation.” In Vedic astrology each planet has one sign where it is debilitated (neecha) and functions weakly. When specific chart conditions are present, that debilitation is treated as cancelled, the planet recovers its strength, and - because a recovered planet can act powerfully - classical texts attach a potential Raja Yoga to it. That is the “Raja Yoga” in the name.
The honest framing this tool insists on: the cancellation is a precondition that can lead to raja-yoga-like results, not a guaranteed Raj Yoga. Whether the raja grade actually forms depends on more than the cancellation - the strength of the cancellation, the dasha (planetary period) running, and favourable placement - which is why the tool reports a cancellation as Neecha Bhanga and never stamps a chart “Raj Yoga.”
In Tamil the same idea is written (in transliteration) as neecha bhanga raja yogam. These are all the same concept under different scripts and spellings.
The cancellation conditions are genuinely contested across commentaries, so this tool checks a documented, tiered set and lists which fire (grouped by source, never summed into a strength score). There are 12 firing conditions in three tiers.
Canonical - Phaladeepika Ch. 7
Later practice (modern compilations)
Contested
Why 12 conditions are not a 12-point score: two of the canonical conditions are alternate readings of one Phaladeepika clause, and the aspect and conjunction forms are two legs of a single verse, so adding them would double-count one textual ground. The contested item is the retrograde reading: the named source (Uttara Kalamrita) describes strength equivalent to exaltation, not cancellation, and authorities disagree - so the tool flags it separately, keeps it count-neutral, and never asserts “behaves as exalted” as a fact.
A cancellation is the event this tool detects: at least one of the tiered conditions fires for a debilitated planet, so its debilitation is treated as cancelled. That is real and useful - it removes a planetary weakness. But it is not, by itself, the Raja Yoga.
For the raja grade, practice adds a further precondition: the cancelling (debilitated) planet must lord a kendra (1, 4, 7, 10) or trikona (1, 5, 9) from the Lagna - it must not lord only difficult houses. The tool evaluates this lordship precondition and tells you whether it is met. Even when it is, the tool does not confirm a Raja Yoga, because the full grade also needs the strength of the cancellation and dasha timing, which are not chart-static and are not evaluated here.
That is why every per-chart result is named Neecha Bhanga (planet), never “Raj Yoga.” If you want the full raj-yoga picture across all families, use the Raj Yoga Calculator, which detects Kendra-Trikona, Yogakaraka, Vipreet, and Pancha Mahapurusha yogas and counts Neecha Bhanga separately.
Most calculators imply a Neecha Bhanga is rare and special. We computed the truth instead. We ran the production classifier over 40,000 sampled India-latitude birth instants - a uniform grid over date (1900 to 2099), clock time, and a representative city grid - and counted cancellations under this exact tiered set.
About 45.45% of sampled instants carry at least one debilitation cancellation. That is just under half of the sampled instants - so a cancelled debilitation is common, not a mark of destiny, which is exactly why it cannot on its own decide a life. These are shares of sampled instants (city-grid weighted, not population weighted) - an astronomical figure, not a statistic about people. The committed sweep script and its output live in the repository.
Most of the cancellation conditions are read from kendra houses counted from your Lagna (ascendant), which advances about one sign every two hours. A birth time off by a few minutes near a sign boundary can move the kendra framework and change which conditions fire. That is why the tool reports how many minutes you are from the nearest Lagna boundary, and when you are within about five minutes it recomputes the chart for the adjacent ascendant and shows exactly which cancellations would be added or lost. Separately, one condition - exaltation in the navamsa (D9) - is sensitive near a D9 pada boundary, so a cancellation that depends on a placement within about 0.3 degrees of a sign edge or pada edge is marked provisional, because it can flip with a small ephemeris or birth-time shift.
Neecha Bhanga (neech bhang in Hindi transliteration) means the cancellation of a planet's debilitation. In Vedic astrology a planet in its debilitation (neecha) sign is weakened; when certain chart conditions are present, that debilitation is considered cancelled and the planet recovers. Because the recovered planet can behave strongly, classical texts attach a potential Raja Yoga to it - hence Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga. The crucial honest point is that the cancellation is a precondition that CAN lead to raja-yoga-like results, not a guaranteed Raj Yoga on its own.
For each debilitated planet in your chart, it tests a documented, tiered set of 12 firing conditions: 5 canonical conditions from Phaladeepika Chapter 7 (Maharaja Yogas), 6 later-practice conditions used in modern compilations, and 1 contested condition (the retrograde reading). It lists exactly which conditions fire, grouped by source tier, and reports whether the kendra/trikona lordship precondition for the stronger raja grade is met. It also shows debilitated planets that are NOT cancelled, rather than hiding them. It prescribes no remedies.
No - and this is the difference most calculators blur. A cancellation (Neecha Bhanga) removes a planetary weakness; that is a necessary precondition for the raja grade, not the grade itself. The full Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga also depends on the strength of the cancellation, dasha (planetary period) timing, and favourable placement, none of which this tool evaluates. So a result here is always labelled Neecha Bhanga, never a confirmed Raj Yoga. The tool does surface whether the lordship precondition (the cancelling planet lording a kendra or trikona) is met, so you can see how far toward the raja grade the chart goes.
This tool checks 12 firing conditions across three tiers. They are NOT equal, and the count is descriptive only - it is never summed into a strength score. Two of the canonical conditions are actually alternate readings of a single Phaladeepika clause (the planet exalted in the debilitation sign, versus the lord of the exaltation sign), and the aspect and conjunction forms of another are two legs of one verse - so adding them up would double-count a single textual ground. That is exactly why the tool lists which conditions fire, grouped by source, instead of showing a total.
The five canonical conditions, from Phaladeepika (Mantreswara), Chapter 7 in the V. Subrahmanya Sastri translation, are: the dispositor of the debilitation sign in a kendra from the Lagna or Moon; a planet exalted in the debilitation sign in such a kendra; the lord of the debilitated planet's exaltation sign in such a kendra; the debilitated planet aspected by its dispositor; and the dispositor and the exaltation-sign lord in mutual kendra. The widely quoted three-kendra formulation is also associated with modern commentary (B.V. Raman). Verse numbers are edition-dependent, so they are not printed here.
This is genuinely contested, which is why the tool tiers it as such and never presents it as settled. The named classical source (Uttara Kalamrita) says a retrograde planet gains strength EQUIVALENT to exaltation - it does not itself say the debilitation is cancelled. Authorities differ: some read it only as strength-equivalence and not cancellation, while others affirm that a retrograde debilitated planet can behave like an exalted one (with a retrograde-phase nuance). The tool includes the retrograde condition as a separately-flagged contested item, kept count-neutral, and never asserts that the planet 'behaves as exalted' as a fact.
Common. We computed it rather than guessing: across 40,000 sampled India-latitude birth instants (a uniform grid over 1900 to 2099), about 45.45% carry at least one debilitation cancellation under this tiered condition set. That is just under half of the sampled instants, so a cancelled debilitation is common rather than a rare distinction. These are shares of sampled instants (city-grid weighted), an astronomical figure and not a statistic about people.
It can. Most of the cancellation conditions are read from kendra houses counted from your Lagna (ascendant), and the Lagna advances about one sign every two hours. If your recorded time is off by even a few minutes near a sign boundary, the kendra framework - and which conditions fire - can change. The tool tells you how many minutes you are from the nearest Lagna boundary and, when you are close, recomputes for the adjacent ascendant and shows exactly which cancellations would be added or lost. One condition (exaltation in the navamsa, D9) is also sensitive near a D9 pada boundary, and such results are flagged provisional.
Yes, they play different roles. The Raj Yoga calculator detects the full set of raj-yoga families (Kendra-Trikona, Yogakaraka, Vipreet, Pancha Mahapurusha) and shows Neecha Bhanga only as a separately-counted cancellation. This page is the dedicated, deeper tool for Neecha Bhanga alone: it lists every debilitated planet, tests all 12 tiered conditions per planet, and explains the cancellation-versus-raja-yoga distinction in full. Both run on the same sidereal engine. If you want the whole yoga picture, use the Raj Yoga calculator; if you specifically want to understand a debilitation cancellation, use this one.
The canonical conditions come from Phaladeepika (Mantreswara), Chapter 7, in the V. Subrahmanya Sastri translation, with the three-kendra formulation also associated with modern commentary (B.V. Raman). The contested retrograde reading traces to Uttara Kalamrita (Kalidasa). The debilitation and exaltation sign tables follow Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Santhanam edition). The astronomy is Jean Meeus / VSOP87 with N.C. Lahiri's ayanamsa. The later-practice conditions are drawn from modern compilations and market convention and are labelled as such, not attributed to a specific verse.
Yes to both. The calculator is completely free with no signup, and the entire calculation runs inside your browser using the same Meeus / VSOP87 sidereal engine as our Kundli generator. Your date, time, and place of birth are never uploaded to any server.
In Hindi this is commonly written (in Latin transliteration) as neech bhang raj yoga or neech bhang raj yog; in Tamil as neecha bhanga raja yogam. They all refer to the same concept: the cancellation of a planet's debilitation and the potential Raja Yoga that can follow. This page uses Latin transliterations because that is how these terms are most often searched and typed.
For the full set of raj-yoga families in your chart - Kendra-Trikona, Yogakaraka, Vipreet, and Pancha Mahapurusha - see the Raj Yoga Calculator. One cancellation condition reads the navamsa, so the Navamsa (D9) Calculator shows the D9 chart and shares the same birth-time-confidence approach, and for your complete Vedic birth chart see the Free Kundli Generator.
scripts/raj-yoga-base-rate.ts and its committed output) for the cancellation incidence over 40,000 sampled instants.This page is the canonical surface for the following terms (the debilitation-cancellation yoga of Vedic astrology):