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Rudraksha Calculator
Look up any of the 21 mukhis, or read the bead your own lagna lord asks for — with the deity, the mantra, the source and the cautions on every card.
Look up any mukhi
Pick a number to see its deity, its graha and what the texts say. No birth details needed.
Or read it from your chart
The primary bead follows your lagna lord, so this needs your birth date, time and place.
Don't know it? Leave blank - we'll read your chart for noon.
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All 21 mukhis at a glance
- 1-mukhiShiva · Sun
- 2-mukhiArdhanarishvara (Shiva-Shakti) · Moon
- 3-mukhiAgni (Fire) · Mars
- 4-mukhiBrahma · Mercury
- 5-mukhiKalagni Rudra · Jupiter
- 6-mukhiKartikeya · Venus
- 7-mukhiSaptamatrika (Seven Mothers) · Saturn
- 8-mukhiGanesha · Rahu
- 9-mukhiDurga · Ketu
- 10-mukhiVishnu
- 11-mukhiRudra (Eleven Rudras)
- 12-mukhiSurya (Twelve Adityas) · Sun
- 13-mukhiIndra / Kamadeva · Venus
- 14-mukhiHanuman · Saturn
- 15-mukhiPashupati (Shiva)
- 16-mukhiMaha-Mrityunjaya (Shiva)
- 17-mukhiVishwakarma / Katyayani
- 18-mukhiBhumi (Mother Earth)
- 19-mukhiNarayana (Vishnu)
- 20-mukhiBrahma (Janardana)
- 21-mukhiKubera
Nine of the twenty-one carry no graha at all - 10, 11 and 15 to 21 are deity beads, and the tradition reads them by deity rather than by planet.
How a rudraksha is chosen in Vedic astrology
The classical rule is not 'a bead for your sign'. It is a bead for a PLANET, and the planet that matters most is your lagna lord - the ruler of the sign rising at the moment you were born. Aries rising makes Mars your lagna lord, and Mars's bead is the 3-mukhi.
That is why this needs a birth time. The lagna changes sign roughly every two hours, so two people born on the same day in the same city can have different lagna lords and different beads. Anything that names a mukhi from your date alone has skipped the step that does the work.
One fact most rudraksha pages leave out: only twelve of the twenty-one mukhis carry a graha at all. Mukhis 10, 11 and 15 through 21 are deity-specific beads with no planet attached, and the tradition reads them by deity rather than by graha. Three planets also appear twice - the Sun on 1 and 12, Venus on 6 and 13, Saturn on 7 and 14 - where the lower number is the ordinary association and the higher one is the rarer, more specific bead.
How to read your result
The headline card is the bead for your lagna lord. Under it, if your chart has them, sit beads for afflicted planets - each answering a different question. The primary supports the ruler of your whole chart; an affliction bead addresses one graha the chart shows under pressure. Wearing both is a decision, not an obvious sum.
Every card carries its ruling deity, a mantra and a source. The mantra is printed as information, not as instruction: in the living tradition initiation and pronunciation both matter, and neither comes from a web page.
Read the cautions before the description. For the rarer mukhis the most serious caution is not astrological at all - it is that authenticity is genuinely hard to verify, and the texts and the market agree on that.
A worked example
Take the chart used across these pages: born 15 April 1990 in Mumbai, Aries ascendant. Aries is ruled by Mars, so Mars is the lagna lord and the primary bead is the 3-mukhi - ruled by Agni, with the mantra Om Kleem Namah, cited to the Padma Purana and the Mantra-mahodadhi.
The caution attached to it is worth reading twice, because it inverts the usual sales logic: the texts advise against wearing the 3-mukhi with a very afflicted Mars, and suggest a trial period first. The very placement that would make someone reach for this bead is a reason to be careful with it.
If that same chart also showed Saturn afflicted, a separate recommendation appears - the 7-mukhi, whose deities are the Saptamatrika, the Seven Mothers. And note what the tool does NOT do here: it does not merge the two into a single 'wear these together' prescription, because the tradition does not.
Method and provenance - including what has not been checked
The lagna and the lagna lord come from a Swiss Ephemeris computation of your chart, sidereal with the Lahiri ayanamsa - the same computation behind every other tool here. That part is arithmetic and we stand behind it.
The bead catalog is a different kind of thing. All 21 entries are paraphrased from named traditional sources - chiefly the Padma Purana and the Shiva Purana, with the Mantra-mahodadhi for several of the mantras - and each card prints the citation for that specific mukhi rather than a general bibliography, so you can take any single claim back to its text.
What we will not claim: none of it has been reviewed by a credentialed astrologer. Every entry is flagged in our own data as pending that review. We would rather state it plainly than let a clean interface imply a vetting that has not happened.
What this tool does not tell you
It does not tell you to wear anything. In most of the source literature the rudraksha sits inside a practice - japa, a vow, a period of discipline - rather than being worn as an ornament for an outcome, and a calculator cannot supply the practice.
It is not medical, financial, legal or relationship advice, and no result here carries an outcome, a timing or a warning about your life.
It cannot tell a real bead from a fake one, and in practice that is the question that decides whether any of this matters. The rarer the mukhi, the worse the problem - a genuine 1-mukhi is extremely rare and the market reflects that. This tool answers only which mukhi the tradition pairs with which graha.
And it depends on your birth time. The bead follows the lagna lord, the lagna moves about one sign every two hours, and an unknown time means the chart is read at noon - which can name a different mukhi. It says so on screen when that happens.
Frequently asked
- Which rudraksha should I wear?
- The classical rule is the lagna lord's bead — the ruler of the sign rising when you were born. That needs your birth date, time and place, because the lagna changes roughly every two hours. If you would rather not enter anything, the picker at the top of the page shows any of the 21 mukhis with its deity, its graha and its source.
- What is a 5 mukhi rudraksha for?
- The 5-mukhi is associated with Jupiter and ruled by Kalagni Rudra. It is the most common and most widely worn bead, and the texts pair it with general well-being — what they call kalyana, auspiciousness. It is the one usually recommended as a first rudraksha for someone new to the practice, which is also why it is the easiest to source honestly.
- Does every mukhi have a planet?
- No, and this is the thing most rudraksha pages get wrong. Only twelve of the twenty-one carry a graha. Mukhis 10, 11 and 15 through 21 are deity-specific with no planet at all. Three planets also appear on two beads each — Sun on 1 and 12, Venus on 6 and 13, Saturn on 7 and 14 — where the lower number is the ordinary association.
- Which rudraksha is for Saturn?
- The 7-mukhi, whose deities are the Saptamatrika (the Seven Mothers), is the ordinary association. Saturn also appears on the 14-mukhi, which is ruled by Hanuman and is the rarer, more specific bead. Both are in the picker above with their own sources and cautions.
- Do I need the mantra?
- Each card prints the traditional mantra as information. In the living tradition, initiation, pronunciation and observance all matter, and none of them come from a website. The mantra is there so you can see what the texts say, not as a set of instructions to follow unsupervised.
- How do I know a rudraksha is genuine?
- This tool cannot tell you, and it is the question that matters most in practice — especially for the rare mukhis, where the incentive to fake is highest. The cards carry the cautions the texts and common practice both give, but testing a bead is a job for a trustworthy seller or a lab, not a calculator.
- Has an astrologer checked these recommendations?
- No, and we would rather say so. The catalog is paraphrased from named classical sources and each entry is cited, but every one is marked in our data as pending review by a credentialed astrologer. Treat the output as sourced tradition you can verify against the text, not as a vetted prescription.