What it is
Ank shastra, the numerology many Indian families know, reads a date through two numbers. The moolank, the root or birth number, comes from the day of the month alone: its digits are added until one digit remains. The bhagyank, the destiny or life-path number, comes from every digit of the full date, the day, the month and the year, added the same way. Each number from one to nine is linked to one of the grahas, the Sun for one, the Moon for two, and so on.
Families use the numbers lightly: to talk about a child's nature, to choose between dates for a ceremony or a shop opening, or to look at how a name sits with a date. A name has its number too, from the values of its letters, and there are two well-known tables for those values, the Chaldean and the Pythagorean. The tool lets you choose either.
What you enter
The form asks for a date, and more if you want it. Its fields, as the web app shows them:
- For the date, the one field you must fill.
- Date of birth, if you want the numbers of a birth read against that date.
- Name, if you want the number of a name too.
- Letter table: Chaldean or Pythagorean, for a name's number.
When you give only a date and no birth details, the answer has its own link, so you can keep it or send it on.
What you get
The tool shows the day number and the life-path number for the date: the moolank and the bhagyank. It also says how the tradition holds the two numbers sit together, and, if you gave a name, its number by the table you chose.
That result is free. If you would like more, a written reading of the numbers, prepared from your details, is a paid extra that the web app offers after the result; you never need it to see the numbers.
How it is worked out
Numerology needs no panchang: the numbers come from the date and the letters alone, so the tool works them out from what you typed, with no city or ayanamsa involved. Where the tradition stops at a master number rather than reducing it to one digit, the tool stops there too.
Only the tools that read the sky need a city and an ayanamsa; How we compute explains how those are worked out.
Before you begin
The tool is free with a Bhagya Card account. If you are not signed in, the button above takes you to sign in first, with your mobile number or your email, and then straight to the tool.
Write a name the way it is spelled on the card or the certificate you care about: a different spelling can give a different number.
Questions
What is the difference between moolank and bhagyank?
The moolank comes from the day of the month alone; the bhagyank from every digit of the full date. The tradition reads the first as nature and the second as the path a life takes.
Chaldean or Pythagorean: which should I choose?
They are two tables of letter values for a name's number. Indian numerologists more often use the Chaldean, which is the form's first choice; choose the one your adviser uses.
Does the tool read a name's number too?
Yes, if you give a name. The tool adds the values of its letters by the letter table you choose, Chaldean or Pythagorean, and shows that number beside the moolank and bhagyank. Leave the name empty, and the result holds only the numbers of the date.
Is the numerology tool free?
Yes, with a free account. Only the written reading offered after the result is paid.