Free Mangal Dosha Calculator (Manglik Check)

Enter your birth details above and this free calculator tells you whether your chart has Mangal Dosha, that is, whether you are Manglik. The first line is a plain verdict: no Mangal Dosha, present but cancelled, present but mild, or present. It checks Mars from three separate reference points, your Lagna, Moon and Venus, grades how strong the result is, and tests the classical cancellations against your actual chart rather than listing them as generic possibilities. Mangal Dosha, also called Kuja Dosha, is what a chart is said to have when Mars sits in one of six particular houses.

How this calculator works

Positions, including your ascendant, are computed in your own browser by our ephemeris, using the Lahiri ayanamsa and the mean lunar node for Rahu and Ketu, read from tables calculated from NASA JPL DE440, which agree with it to within a few seconds of arc for births from 1899 to 2075 (outside those years a compact series is used, and the result says so). Your ascendant comes from the local sidereal time at your birth place, so an accurate birth time matters here more than for most calculators on this site. The time zone in force at your birth place, including daylight saving, is applied automatically. The working is done in your browser. Once your email is confirmed, the birth details you enter and the headline of the result are kept with it, so that our emails can fit your chart (see the privacy policy).

The calculator checks whether Mars falls in the first, second, fourth, seventh, eighth or twelfth house counted from three points: the Lagna, the Moon and Venus. This three-reference method is the stricter approach followed in north Indian practice; many matching tables elsewhere count from the Lagna alone, which is one reason other sources can disagree on whether a chart is Manglik at all. The free kundali and the Mangal dosha matching tool on this site use this same count. Severity is graded by how many references are hit: all three reads as high, two as moderate, one as mild.

It then tests cancellations against your placements: Mars in its own sign, Aries or Scorpio, or exalted in Capricorn; Mars in Leo or Aquarius, recognised by several authorities; Jupiter conjunct or aspecting Mars; and Jupiter or Venus in the Lagna. Each is checked individually and named when it applies. Two further cancellations are listed but not tested, since the calculator works from one chart at a time: both partners carrying Mangal Dosha, and age above twenty-eight, a widely followed convention.

Reading your result

The first line is the final verdict after the cancellation rules are applied: no Mangal Dosha, present but cancelled (and by which rule), present but mild, or present. Below it come the three references with Mars’s house from each, then the cancellation rules we tested, each marked as applying or not. A cancellation that applies is stated plainly, for instance that Jupiter aspects Mars in your chart, and it is the reason the verdict reads cancelled. The result also says what a Lagna-only count would give, so the verdict does not seem to disagree with a table that counts that way. The two cancellations the calculator cannot test are listed anyway, so you know they exist and can weigh them yourself.

Where traditions differ

The biggest disagreement is the starting point: whether Mars should be counted from the Lagna only, or from the Lagna, the Moon and Venus together. This calculator uses the stricter three-reference method, so it will sometimes flag a dosha that a Lagna-only table misses, the most common reason two Mangal Dosha checks disagree on the same chart. The list of houses is not fixed either: some sources use the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th and 12th only, and others add the 2nd, as this calculator does, so a chart with Mars in the 2nd house alone can be Manglik by one list and not by the other. There is also no full agreement on the extra cancellation signs, Leo and Aquarius are accepted by several authorities but not treated as universal, and no consensus on the age at which the dosha stops mattering, twenty-eight being the most widely quoted figure rather than a fixed rule.

What it cannot tell you

This calculator reads one chart. It cannot check whether a prospective partner also carries Mangal Dosha, one of the two classical cancellations, and it does not know your age, so it lists the age convention without applying it. Nor does it weigh Mangal Dosha against everything else a marriage compatibility reading would consider. For the full chart these placements sit inside, see the free kundali tool.

Mangal Dosha is common: about half of all charts carry it counted from the Lagna alone, and close to nine in ten by the three-reference count used here, before any cancellation is applied. That alone says how it should be read, and it is never, on this site, a reason for fear.

What helps

Start with your result: if it names a cancellation that applies, the dosha is read as cancelled. If it does not, the remedies tradition gives for Mars begin with conduct, that is, regular exercise, disciplined effort and patience in anger. Devotion to Hanuman follows, with the Hanuman Chalisa or the Mars beej mantra on Tuesdays, Tuesday charity such as red lentils or jaggery, and the Tuesday fast for those who are well enough to keep it. The Mars remedies page explains each one. For marriage, the Mangal Dosha matching tool checks both charts, since by the traditional rule a dosha in both partners balances out.

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Frequently asked questions

For the whole chart these placements come from, along with every other dosha and yoga, use the free kundali tool. If you would like to talk through what it means for you, see consultation.