Find the Raj Yogas in your Vedic birth chart from date, time, and place of birth. The tool detects Kendra-Trikona raj yogas (including Dharma-Karmadhipati and single-planet Yogakaraka), Vipreet (Harsha / Sarala / Vimala), and the Pancha Mahapurusha yogas - plus Neecha Bhanga (cancellation of debilitation), shown separately since it is not itself a raja yoga - with honest dignity caveats, a computed base rate, and a birth-time-confidence check. This is the birth-chart yoga, not the Raja Yoga meditation path. Uses sidereal Lahiri ayanamsa, the same engine as our Kundli generator.
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Supports 1900 onwards for better calculation reliability.
Raj yogas are read from your house lords, and the houses depend on your Lagna (ascendant), which changes about every 2 hours. 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 | Raj yogas: Kendra-Trikona / Dharma-Karmadhipati, Yogakaraka, Vipreet (Harsha / Sarala / Vimala), Pancha Mahapurusha. Plus Neecha Bhanga (debilitation cancellation), shown separately. |
| Association modes | Conjunction, mutual aspect (graha drishti), parivartana (sign exchange) |
| Base rate (any raj yoga) | About 97.51% of sampled instants carry at least one - common, not special |
| Honesty features | Family-aware weakened flags, near-boundary provisional flags, birth-time confidence with an alternative-Lagna diff |
| Birth-time sensitivity | High - the Lagna moves about one sign every two hours and rewrites the house lords |
| 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 result whose depended-on placement is within 0.3 deg of a boundary - a sign edge, or a navamsa (D9) pada edge for a navamsa condition - is flagged provisional |
| Remedies | None - this is a classification tool, not advisory |
| Privacy / cost | 100% client-side; no data leaves the browser; free |
In Vedic astrology a Raj Yoga (raj yog) is a combination in the birth chart that the classical texts link to rise, recognition, and accomplishment. The central and most-cited form is a relationship between the lord of a kendra (a quadrant house - 1, 4, 7, 10) and the lord of a trikona (a trine house - 1, 5, 9). House 1 belongs to both groups, so the Lagna lord paired with the 5th or 9th lord is among the strongest of these. The source is Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra; this tool counts two lords as associated only by conjunction, mutual full-sign aspect, or sign exchange (parivartana), the conservative reading.
One disambiguation up front: this is the birth-chart Raj Yoga of Jyotisha. It is a different subject from Raja Yoga the meditation and mind-discipline path of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, popularised by Swami Vivekananda. The two only share a name.
When the kendra lord and the trikona lord are two different planets and they are associated, you get a Kendra-Trikona raj yoga. The special case of the 9th lord (dharma, a trikona) with the 10th lord (karma, a kendra) is named Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga and is usually rated the strongest. About 30% of sampled instants carry that 9 + 10 identity.
A Yogakaraka is a single planet that lords both a kendra (4, 7, or 10) and a trikona (5 or 9) at once, needing no partner. The classical list is exactly six ascendants - Mars for Cancer and Leo, Saturn for Taurus and Libra, Venus for Capricorn and Aquarius. For a Taurus Lagna, Saturn lords both the 9th and 10th, so the tool reports it as a Dharma-Karmadhipati / Yogakaraka identity. The four Lagna-plus-kendra same-lord cases (Mercury and Jupiter for four ascendants) are deferred in v1 and disclosed, because owning the Lagna is the baseline role, not a bonus trikona.
Neecha Bhanga is a debilitated planet whose debilitation is cancelled, so the planet recovers - a precondition that can lead to raja-yoga-like results, not a guaranteed Raj Yoga. 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):
The debilitation itself is the premise, so the tool never flags it as a weakness. It reports whether the kendra/trikona lordship precondition for the stronger “Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga” grade is met - but never asserts that grade, because it also depends on the strength of the cancellation and dasha timing, which this tool does not evaluate. A cancellation is listed as “Neecha Bhanga”, never as a confirmed Raj Yoga. For a dedicated readout - every debilitated planet, all the tiered conditions checked per planet, and the cancellation-versus-raja-yoga distinction in full - see the Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga Calculator.
Vipreet (viparita) Raja Yoga is the rise-through-adversity yoga: a lord of a dusthana (the difficult houses 6, 8, 12) placed in a dusthana. Phaladeepika names the three sub-types - Harsha (the 6th lord), Sarala (the 8th lord), and Vimala (the 12th lord). The tool labels each placement as same-dusthana (a lord in its own dusthana) or other-dusthana, and reports the split honestly in the base rate.
Because a dusthana placement is exactly what defines this yoga, the tool never treats it as a weakness - a common double-counting error. About 57% of sampled instants carry at least one Vipreet of some placement. The stricter variant that requires the dusthana lord not to conjoin or aspect a benefic is contested and disclosed as deferred.
The Pancha Mahapurusha (five great-person) yogas form when one of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, or Saturn sits in its own sign or its exaltation sign and occupies a kendra (1, 4, 7, 10) from the Lagna. The five names, from Saravali and Phaladeepika, are Ruchaka (Mars), Bhadra (Mercury), Hamsa (Jupiter), Malavya (Venus), and Sasa (Saturn). The Sun and Moon are excluded by definition.
The tool measures the kendra from the Lagna, the standard primary framing, and discloses the Moon-kendra variant as deferred. The own-or-exalted dignity is the premise, so it is never a weakness; combustion - especially for Mercury and Venus, which never stray far from the Sun - is flagged, because it genuinely undermines the yoga. About 34% of sampled instants carry at least one Mahapurusha yoga. For a per-yoga readout of all five - including an honest why-not for the absent ones and per-yoga base rates - see the dedicated Panch Mahapurusha Yoga Calculator.
Most calculators imply a raj yoga 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 the families:
These are shares of sampled instants (city-grid weighted, not population weighted) - an astronomical figure, not a statistic about people. The takeaway: a raj yoga is the norm, so strength, cancellation, dignity, and birth-time confidence matter far more than mere presence. The full sweep script and its committed output are in the repository.
Raj yogas are read from your house lords, and the houses are counted from your Lagna (ascendant), which advances about one sign every two hours. A birth time that is off by a few minutes near a sign boundary can rewrite the entire house framework and change which yogas form. That is why this 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 yogas would be added or lost - a birth-time-confidence check no flattery calculator offers. Separately, when a placement a result depends on sits within about 0.3 degrees of a boundary - a sign edge, or a navamsa (D9) pada edge for a navamsa condition - that individual result is marked provisional, because its sign, house, or dignity can flip with a small ephemeris or birth-time shift.
In Vedic astrology (Jyotisha) a Raj Yoga is a combination in a birth chart that classical texts associate with rise, status, and accomplishment. The best-known form is a relationship between the lord of a kendra (quadrant house 1, 4, 7, or 10) and the lord of a trikona (trine house 1, 5, or 9). There are several named raj-yoga families - Kendra-Trikona, Yogakaraka, Vipreet, and the Pancha Mahapurusha yogas - and this tool detects all of them from your birth chart. It also flags Neecha Bhanga (cancellation of a planet's debilitation), which it shows and counts separately, because a cancellation is a precondition that can lead to a raja yoga, not itself a confirmed raja yoga. Note this is the chart yoga; it is a different thing from Raja Yoga the meditation path of Patanjali and Vivekananda.
Probably yes - and that is exactly the point most calculators hide. Enter your date, time, and place of birth and the tool lists every raj yoga it finds, strongest first, with the planets and houses that form each one. But our own sweep over 40,000 sampled birth instants finds at least one raj-class yoga in about 97.51% of sampled instants. So having a raj yoga is the norm, not a special distinction. What separates charts is strength, whether the forming planet is debilitated or combust, whether a cancellation actually fired, and how confident your birth time is.
Common. We computed it rather than guessing: across 40,000 sampled India-latitude birth instants (a uniform grid over 1900 to 2099), about 97.51% carry at least one raj-class yoga. By family, a Kendra-Trikona yoga appears in about 86%, a Yogakaraka in about 50%, a Dharma-Karmadhipati (9 + 10 lord) identity in about 30%, a Vipreet in about 57%, and a Pancha Mahapurusha in about 34%. Separately - and NOT counted in the raj-class figure above - a debilitation cancellation (Neecha Bhanga) appears in about 45% of instants, because a cancellation is not itself a raja yoga. These are shares of sampled instants (city-grid weighted, not population weighted) - an astronomical figure, not a statistic about people.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga is the specific, and usually strongest, Kendra-Trikona raj yoga formed by the 9th lord (dharma, a trikona) and the 10th lord (karma, a kendra). When those two lords are associated - by conjunction, by mutual aspect, or by sign exchange (parivartana) - the tool names it Dharma-Karmadhipati and flags it as the strongest. For a few ascendants a single planet lords both the 9th and 10th (for example Saturn for a Taurus Lagna), which the tool also recognises as a Dharma-Karmadhipati / Yogakaraka identity.
Neecha Bhanga (neech bhang) is a debilitated planet whose debilitation is cancelled, so the planet recovers - a precondition that can lead to raja-yoga-like results, not a guaranteed Raj Yoga. Because the cancellation conditions are contested, this tool checks a documented, tiered set and lists which fire, grouped by source: canonical Phaladeepika conditions (the dispositor, the planet exalted in the debilitation sign, or the lord of the planet's exaltation sign in a kendra from the Lagna or Moon; the dispositor aspecting the planet; the dispositor and exaltation-sign lord in mutual kendra), plus later-practice conditions (exaltation in the navamsa, parivartana, conjunction, or two debilitated planets in mutual aspect) and one separately-flagged contested condition (the retrograde reading). The count is descriptive, never summed into a strength score. The tool reports whether the kendra/trikona lordship precondition for the raja grade is met, but never confirms that grade (it also needs cancellation strength and dasha timing, which are not evaluated), so a cancellation is always shown as Neecha Bhanga, never as a Raj Yoga.
Vipreet (viparita) Raja Yoga is the rise-through-adversity yoga: a lord of a dusthana (the difficult houses 6, 8, 12) placed in a dusthana. The three named sub-types are Harsha (6th lord), Sarala (8th lord), and Vimala (12th lord). The tool labels each as same-dusthana (a lord in its own dusthana) or other-dusthana, and because the dusthana placement is what defines the yoga, it never treats that placement as a weakness. The stricter must-not-aspect-a-benefic variant is disclosed as deferred.
The Pancha Mahapurusha (five great-person) yogas form when Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, or Saturn sits in its own sign or its exaltation sign and occupies a kendra (1, 4, 7, 10) from the Lagna. The five are Ruchaka (Mars), Bhadra (Mercury), Hamsa (Jupiter), Malavya (Venus), and Sasa (Saturn). The Sun and Moon are excluded by definition. The tool measures the kendra from the Lagna (the standard primary framing) and flags a yoga as weakened only when the forming planet is combust, since combustion genuinely undermines it.
No. A raj yoga is a classical descriptor in a chart, not a guarantee of any outcome, and our base rate shows most charts have one - so it cannot be what decides a life. Real-world results depend on countless factors astrology does not measure, and even within the tradition the strength of the yoga, dignity of the planets, dasha timing, and many other considerations matter. This tool stays informational: it classifies and explains, and it does not predict outcomes or sell remedies.
Because raj yogas are read from your house lords, and the houses are counted from your Lagna (ascendant), which advances about one sign every two hours. If your recorded birth time is off by even a few minutes near a sign boundary, your whole house framework - and therefore which yogas form - can change. The tool tells you how many minutes you are from the nearest Lagna boundary, and when you are close it recomputes the chart for the adjacent ascendant and shows exactly which yogas would be added or lost, so you know whether to verify your time.
Yes, the core rules are classical, and the page cites them by chapter. Kendra-Trikona raj yogas and yogakarakas come from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra; the Viparita trio (Harsha / Sarala / Vimala) and the Pancha Mahapurusha definitions are named in Phaladeepika and Saravali; the clean three-mode association (conjunction, aspect, exchange) is cleanly stated in Uttara Kalamrita and Sarvartha Chintamani; and the combustion orbs trace to Siddhanta Shiromani. The Neecha Bhanga cancellation conditions are tiered by source: the canonical ones are from Phaladeepika (Mantreswara) Chapter 7 (Maharaja Yogas) - the dispositor / exalter / exaltation-sign lord in a kendra, the dispositor aspecting the planet, and the two dispositors in mutual kendra - with the three-kendra formulation also associated with the modern commentator B.V. Raman; a set of later-practice conditions (navamsa exaltation, parivartana, conjunction, mutual cancellation) plus one separately-flagged contested condition (the retrograde reading, whose sources disagree) are each labelled by their own tier. Raj yoga rules are genuinely contested across sources, so the tool implements one documented convention and discloses each rule's tier and what it defers.
They share a name but are unrelated. This calculator is about Raj Yoga in Vedic astrology - combinations in a birth chart. Raja Yoga (or Raja Yog) in the yogic tradition is the meditation and mind-discipline path described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and popularised by Swami Vivekananda. If you are looking for the meditation path, this tool is not it; it reads astrological yogas from your Kundli.
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.
For your full Vedic birth chart - all nine grahas, the D1 and D9 charts, Vimshottari Dasha, and Mangal Dosha - see the Free Kundli Generator. Since raj yogas hinge on your ascendant, the Navamsa (D9) Calculator shares the same birth-time-confidence approach for the D9 chart, and the Mangal Dosha Calculator screens a different chart-wide condition from the same birth details.
scripts/raj-yoga-base-rate.ts and its committed output) for the incidence over 40,000 sampled instants.This page is the canonical surface for the following terms (the calculator-qualified Vedic astrology yoga, not the meditation path):