Lahiri ayanamsa · Whole Sign houses · Node type: Mean node
Ascendant basis: our Lagna follows a slightly different convention from Drik's, agreeing within about 0.3 degrees. A birth very close to a sign boundary can show a different rising sign. Planets and Panchang elements agree to under one arc-minute.
Dasha timing: our Vimshottari Dasha period boundaries agree with Drik's within a few days, not to the exact day. This comes from two documented sources: a tiny difference in the birth Moon's measured position that compounds across the full 120 year cycle, and a different classical year length the two engines use to lengthen each period (we use 365.25 days, Drik uses the sidereal year of about 365.256 days).
Cross-check these values against Drik Panchang for the same date, time, and place.
Vedic naming tradition, sometimes called Namakaran, suggests a starting sound for a child's name based on the Moon's Nakshatra and pada at the moment of birth. This calculator looks up that traditional starting sound from a child's birth details.
This calculator sends the child's birth date, time, and place to VedicShala's astrology calculation provider, which returns the Moon's exact sidereal longitude for that moment. That longitude is used to find the birth Nakshatra and pada, the same finer placement the Nakshatra calculator on this site derives. The Nakshatra and pada are then looked up against a fixed, traditional 27-by-4 table that maps each of the 27 Nakshatras' four padas to one or more starting syllables, a widely used classical reference for choosing a name's first sound.
Because a pada spans only about 3.3 degrees of lunar motion, roughly six and a half hours, this is a genuinely time-sensitive calculation. If the exact birth time is not known, the calculator still returns a result computed from a noon default for that day, but the result explicitly says to confirm the exact birth time before treating the suggested syllable as final, since a wrong pada gives a wrong syllable.
If a child's Moon lands in the second pada of Rohini Nakshatra, the traditional table gives "Va" as the starting sound for that pada. A name beginning with that sound, such as Vani or Vansh, would be considered traditionally aligned with the child's birth Nakshatra and pada under this system.
Enter the child's date, time, and place of birth into the form above. These birth details are sent to our astrology calculation provider so it can compute the Moon's exact position for that moment; the provider discards those details afterward and we do not store them unless you choose to save the result to a free VedicShala account.
This traditional syllable table is one widely referenced version among a few that circulate in Vedic naming practice, and different sources occasionally list a slightly different sound for the same pada. If the exact birth time is unknown, treat the suggested syllable as provisional rather than final, and confirm the exact birth time, ideally from a hospital record, before finalising a name. This is a traditional naming aid, not a rule that a name must follow.