Choose your birth nakshatra or Moon sign above if you already know it, or enter your birth details, and this free tool gives you a verse to recite: the verse of the Navagraha Stotra for the planet that rules your nakshatra. With birth details it also gives the verse for the lord of your Moon sign and, when the time is known, of your rising sign. Each verse comes in Devanagari, with a transliteration and its meaning, and with the second verse for the same planet from the Pida Hara Stotra. For example, Ashwini is ruled by Ketu, so its verse is the one to Ketu that begins Palashapushpasankasham.
How it works
The Navagraha Stotra is a set of nine Sanskrit verses, one for each planet from the Sun to Ketu; its colophon credits Vyasa. A second set of nine, which its own colophon calls the Navagraha Pida Hara Stotra from the Brahmanda Purana, follows it. The verses here are exactly the ones on our Navagraha mantras page, taken from the Sanskrit Wikisource page “नवग्रहस्तोत्रम्”, with the same transliteration and meaning.
The tool links your nakshatra or sign to a verse through the planet that rules it. A nakshatra’s lord is the one of the Vimshottari scheme, the same lord our nakshatra calculator gives, and a sign’s lord is the usual one of our other tools, with Mars for Scorpio and Saturn for Aquarius. The nakshatra comes first, then the Moon sign, then the rising sign, and a verse already printed is not printed again.
Each nakshatra also has a deity, as our nakshatra pages give them. Two of them are named in the stotra itself: the Moon’s verse calls him Soma, the deity of Mrigashira, and Jupiter’s verse names Brihaspati, the deity of Pushya, so for those nakshatras that verse is shown too. For five more, Krittika, Ardra, Hasta, Vishakha and Shravana, the tool links our texts that call on the deity, such as the Gayatri mantra, addressed to Savitr, for Hasta, whose deity is Savitar.
With birth details, the Moon’s sidereal position (Lahiri ayanamsa) at the moment of birth gives the nakshatra and the Moon sign, and the time and place give the rising sign. Without a time the Moon is taken at midday, and the result says whether the Moon changed nakshatra or sign that day, which could change the verse.
Reading the result
The headline names the verse for your birth nakshatra. Each section below it gives one reading: the nakshatra or sign, the planet that rules it, the verse with its meaning, and in a fold the Pida Hara verse for the same planet. A line under each section links the other texts that planet’s remedies page names. The source of the verses is given under them.
Where traditions differ
The Navagraha Stotra does not pair its verses with nakshatras or signs. Linking them through the ruling planet is this site’s own way of using it, not a rule of the text. Many people recite a planet’s verse on its weekday, and customs differ, so follow your family or teacher.
Some families recite a Vedic verse for the birth nakshatra itself, from the nakshatra verses of the Taittiriya Brahmana (3.1). We have not added those verses yet, as we print a sacred text only after checking it against a printed edition.
What it does not do
It does not judge your chart or say that any verse is needed, and it promises nothing. It does not teach pronunciation; our Navagraha mantras page has notes on it, and a recording you trust is the best guide. To find longer texts for your planet, use the mantra finder, and to keep count of your recitations, the japa mala counter.
Frequently asked questions
↳ Which shloka is for my nakshatra?
The tool gives the Navagraha Stotra verse for the planet that rules your nakshatra in the Vimshottari scheme. For example Rohini, Hasta and Shravana are ruled by the Moon, so their verse is the Moon's, which begins Dadhishankhatusharabham.
↳ Which shloka is for my rashi?
The verse for the planet that rules your Moon sign: Mars for Mesha and Vrishchika, Venus for Vrishabha and Tula, Mercury for Mithuna and Kanya, the Moon for Karka, the Sun for Simha, Jupiter for Dhanu and Meena, and Saturn for Makara and Kumbha.
↳ Is there a verse for each nakshatra in the old texts?
The Navagraha Stotra has one verse per planet, not per nakshatra. The Taittiriya Brahmana has verses for the nakshatras themselves; we have not added them yet, because we print a sacred text only after checking it against a printed edition.
↳ What is the Pida Hara Stotra?
A second set of nine verses that follows the Navagraha Stotra in our source. Its colophon names it the Navagraha Pida Hara Stotra from the Brahmanda Purana, and each verse asks the planet to remove distress.
↳ When should I recite the verse?
Many devotees recite it in the morning, often on the planet's weekday, such as Monday for the Moon. Some read all nine verses once, and some repeat one verse on a mala. Customs differ by region, family and priest.
↳ Do I need my birth time?
Usually, yes. The headline verse is the one for the lord of your nakshatra, and the Moon moves into the next nakshatra during most days: in our check of every day from 2000 to 2029, it did so on about 96 days in 100, and the next nakshatra always has a different lord. So without a time the headline verse usually depends on the hour of birth. The Moon sign is firmer, as the Moon changed sign on about 44 days in 100. Without a time the tool uses the Moon at midday and tells you what changed that day and at about what hour. The rising sign always needs the time.