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णमो अरिहंताणं · णमो सिद्धाणं
Nidarshana Vedh
Our Dharma Should Be Visible
This site exists for three Jain missions: to make our identity visible again, to practice without denial, and to tell our own story from our own texts. A fourth, anekantavada, is offered to everyone. The panchang, the muhurta finder and the chart readings here are the work. The missions are the reason.
Why This Site Exists
Our Four Missions
This site computes panchangs and reads charts. But tools are not why it exists. These missions are.
हमारा धर्म दिखना चाहिए
Two-thirds of Jains say we have a lot in common with Hindus. Only 19 percent of Hindus say the same about us. We see everyone. Almost nobody sees us. A Sikh wrist carries a kara and a Hindu forehead carries a tika, and a Jain carries nothing that says who we are. Values die not by argument, but by absence. So every symbol on this site is explained, so you can explain it to your children.
स्वीकार पहला व्रत है
It is difficult to practice Jainism today the way Bhagwan Mahavira practiced it, and the tradition said so first: the great vows of ascetics were scaled by the tradition itself into anuvratas, small vows, for laypeople. So we will not tell you that eating after sunset makes you a failed Jain. But the shastras name the one thing that does break the path, maya-shalya, the thorn of concealment. You are allowed to be an imperfect Jain. You are not allowed to pretend.
हमारा इतिहास, हमारी विरासत
Jainism never denied the epics. It claimed them. Vimalasuri's Paumachariya, the Jain Ramayana, is one of the earliest surviving Ramayanas after Valmiki, and in it Rama is a Baladeva so committed to nonviolence that he kills no one, and he attains moksha. Krishna, in our tradition, is the first cousin of Bhagwan Neminatha, the 22nd Tirthankara. In the Jain universe, nobody is beyond redemption. You cannot pass on what you do not know.
अनेकांतवाद: इस युग की सबसे ज़रूरी जैन देन
The internet's disease is one-sidedness. Jainism's oldest intellectual doctrine is the exact antidote: anekantavada, the many-sidedness of reality. No single viewpoint, our acharyas taught, can hold the whole truth of any real thing. It is ahimsa applied to the mind. You do not need to be Jain to receive it. Wherever this site can teach a reader to say "from one standpoint" before an opinion, we will.
In Service of the Missions
What This Site Does
Tools and records, built because the missions need them: a calendar the diaspora can actually use, the tradition's own data compiled and sourced, and chart readings that stay inside Jain doctrine.
Jain Astrology, Explained Honestly
The same sidereal mathematics as classical Jyotisha, read through Jain karma theory. The planets indicate the karma the soul carries; they do not cause anything, and what they indicate your own effort can change.
Read More →The Jain Panchang
Today's tithi with the parva days (Bij, Pancham, Aatham, Agiyaras, Chaudas), pachkhan times computed from your own city's sunrise rather than India's, and choghadiya.
Read More →The Muhurta Finder
Chart reading is optional for a Jain householder; the calendar is not. Scan any date range for a beginning, weighed by tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga, karana and choghadiya.
Read More →The 24 Tirthankara Lives
Told from the classical texts, Hemachandra's Trishashti-Shalaka-Purusha-Charitra, the Kalpasutra and the Adi Purana, with Shvetambara and Digambara tellings both honored and tradition and scholarship clearly labeled.
Read More →The Birth Stars of the 24
Every Tirthankara's janma nakshatra and rashi, cross-checked between the Shvetambara Bhagwan Parichay line and the Digambara Tiloya Pannatti. Twenty-one of the 24 agree; the three that differ are shown both ways.
Read More →The Kalyanaka Calendar
All 120 kalyanakas of the 24 Tirthankaras, conception, birth, renunciation, omniscience and liberation, with the tithi, nakshatra and source shown for each.
Read More →The Bhaktamar Stotra, Verse by Verse
Acharya Manatunga's hymn studied one verse at a time: the exact Sanskrit, a careful transliteration, the meaning, and the commentary. The 44 and 48 verse recensions are both presented, with neither declared a corruption of the other.
Read More →The Mahavira Kundali, Traced
One chart of Bhagwan Mahavira circulates across Hindi sites, YouTube and blogs. We traced where it came from, checked what scripture says, and checked the sky. It cannot be real, and the reasons are more interesting than the chart.
Read More →तीर्थंकर परम्परा
The 24 Tirthankaras
Mission 3 begins here. Every Tirthankara's birth is recorded in the tradition with its nakshatra and rashi, and each is known by a lanchhana, an emblem. A page for each life, told from the texts.
Lanchhanas shown per the Shvetambara tradition; the Digambara tradition differs for a few Tirthankaras, and both are honored here.
What We Believe
The Three Jewels
Jain tradition calls them the Ratnatraya. They shape everything published here, the calendars and the readings alike.
Samyak Darshana · Right Seeing
Seeing the chart as it is, not as fear or fantasy wants it to be. Jain teaching classifies astrology as nimitta-shastra, the science of signs. A sign points; it does not push. We never present a planetary period as a punishment or a promise, only as a reading of the karma in play.
Samyak Jnana · Right Knowledge
Precise calculation and honest sourcing. The mathematics of Jyotisha, the tithi system of the Jain calendar, and the classical texts, from the Surya Prajnapti to the tradition of Bhadrabahu, studied with discipline. Where traditions differ, Shvetambara and Digambara alike, we show both and declare neither wrong.
Samyak Charitra · Right Conduct
Ahimsa governs everything we recommend. No animal-derived gemstones, no fire rituals, no black magic, no fear-driven selling. The remedies we suggest are the ones the Jain tradition itself trusts: Navkar Mantra, fasting, charity, restraint, and changed conduct. They cost nothing and change everything.
Our Approach to Remedies
Mainstream astrology sells remedies: gemstones, havans, elaborate pujas. The Jain tradition points a different way. Karma is not appeased. It is shed.
Panch samavaya, the Jain doctrine of five factors, holds that every outcome arises from time, nature, destiny, past karma, and self-effort together. The chart reads only the karmic input. Effort remains yours. So our remedies are practices, not purchases: reciting the Navkar Mantra when the mind is restless, fasting on Aatham and Chaudas, giving quietly to jivdaya, changing the one habit your chart says binds you.
A small shift in conduct can redirect the energy of an entire planetary period. That is not superstition. That is the Jain understanding of karma: modifiable, sheddable, yours.
Our Promise
What You Will Never Find Here
No Fear-Selling
No doom predictions, no "buy this stone or suffer." A difficult period is karmic weather to navigate, never a threat to monetize.
No Himsa in Remedies
No coral, no pearl, no animal-derived materials, no fire sacrifices, and absolutely no vashikaran or occult "removal" services. Ahimsa is not negotiable.
No Sect Taking Sides
Shvetambara, Digambara, Sthanakvasi, Terapanthi: where calendars and customs differ, we show every tradition side by side and declare none of them wrong.