Kaal Sarp Dosha Check

Check my Kaal Sarp Dosha — how the answer is decided

Kaal Sarp Dosha (also written Kaal Sarp Yog, Kal Sarp Dosh, or Kalsarp) is judged by one geometric test: are all seven classical planets — Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn — contained within the half of the chart running from Rahu to Ketu? Rahu and Ketu always sit exactly 180° apart, so they cut the zodiac into two halves. If every planet falls on one side, the dosha forms. If even one planet sits on the other side, it does not.

To check your own chart, enter your date, time and place of birth above. The tool computes sidereal positions with Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri Ayanamsha, then shows exactly which planets sit inside and outside the axis — so you see the reasoning, not just the verdict.

That is also why the answer is usually no. A single planet outside the axis is enough to break it, and with seven planets scattered across twelve houses that happens far more often than not.

Which Kaal Sarp Dosh do I have? The 12 types

Each type is named after a Naga (serpent deity) and is determined purely by which house Rahu occupies — Ketu is always six houses away. In order from the 1st house to the 12th they are Anant, Kulik, Vasuki, Shankhpal, Padma, Mahapadma, Takshak, Karkotak, Shankhchud, Ghatak, Vishdhar and Sheshnag. Run the check above and the full reference appears with your own placement highlighted.

Sources differ on three of these names. The 9th-house type appears as both Shankhchud and Shankhanaad, the 10th as Ghatak and Patak, and the 11th as Vishdhar and Vishadhara. The house positions are identical in every source — only the naming tradition varies.

Do I have partial (Anshik) or full (Poorna) Kaal Sarp?

The difference comes down to a single count — how many planets sit outside the Rahu-Ketu axis:

• Poorna (full) Kaal Sarp — zero planets outside. All seven sit within the half-circle from Rahu to Ketu. This is the complete formation and the only one every source agrees on.
• Anshik (partial) Kaal Sarp — one planet outside, and by the common rule that planet must specifically be the Moon. A softer reading rather than a separate classical category.
• No Kaal Sarp — two or more planets outside, or one planet that is not the Moon. The formation is broken.

Practitioners disagree about whether Anshik should count at all. A common stricter position holds that when the Moon is the planet outside the axis, no Kaal Sarp reading applies — the opposite of the softer view. The tool reports the full planetary distribution either way, so you can see how close the chart actually is rather than relying on a single label.

Your result above states which of the three applies, along with the exact planets on each side of the axis.

How old is this concept?

Worth knowing before you worry: Kaal Sarp Yoga does not appear in the classical Vedic corpus. It is absent from Parashara’s Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, from Varahamihira’s Brihat Jataka, and from Jaimini. The twelve Naga names come from puranic serpent lore, and the combination was popularised in the 20th century, largely through temple traditions around Trimbakeshwar in Maharashtra.

That does not make it meaningless to those who follow it — but it does mean claims of ancient scriptural authority are not accurate, and that a Kaal Sarp result should be weighed as one factor among many rather than treated as a verdict on your life.

Does an exact birth time matter?

Yes, more than for most checks. Rahu and Ketu move slowly (about 19 minutes of arc per day), so their signs barely shift within a day. But the house positions depend on your Ascendant, which advances a full sign roughly every two hours. Since the type is named from Rahu’s house, a birth time wrong by two hours can change Anant into Kulik. If your time is uncertain, treat the type name as provisional — though whether the dosha forms at all depends on planetary longitudes, which are far more stable.

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