मुख्य सामग्री पर जाएँ

Core concept

Lagna

Lagna is the ascendant in Vedic astrology — the zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon at the exact time and place of birth. It becomes the 1st house of the chart and sets the order of all twelve houses.

Lagna illustration

Related terms

  • Kundli

    Kundli is the Vedic birth chart — a diagram of the sign, house and degree of each of the nine grahas at the exact moment and place of a person's birth. Every other reading in Vedic astrology, from Dasha timing to marriage matching, starts from it.

  • Rashi

    Rashi is a zodiac sign in Vedic astrology — one of the twelve 30° divisions of the sidereal zodiac. "Your Rashi" usually means the sign the Moon occupied at birth, the sign a Vedic astrologer asks for first; the Sun's Rashi is closer to the Western sun sign.

  • Bhava

    Bhava is a house in Vedic astrology — one of the twelve divisions of the birth chart, each governing a set of life areas such as self, wealth, siblings, home, children, work or marriage. Kundli Saathi counts houses in the whole-sign system from the Lagna.