Lal Kitab · Beta

Lal Kitab chart, readings and upay

See your birth chart the Lal Kitab way: the fixed-house chart, each planet’s house reading, pakka ghar, sleeping planets and houses, dharmi planets, rin indications, masnui planets and the traditional low-cost upay.

Beta Separate tradition Lal Kitab is a separate tradition from Parashari Jyotish, with its own rules. This section is Beta: the rules shown are commonly printed forms, and Lal Kitab editions and teachers differ on several of them. Readings are traditional indications, not predictions.

Birth details

Person

Whose Kundli is this?

Name

Birth date & time

As written on the birth record

Date of birth

Time of birth

Local clock time at the place of birth, as written on the birth record (24-hour format).

Birth time is not knownLagna, houses and divisional charts need the time; everything else is still calculated.

Birth place

City, town or village of birth

Place of birth

Type at least two letters and choose a place from the list. Without JavaScript the first matching place is used.

Coordinates and time-zone details (optional)

If your place is not in the list, enter its latitude, longitude and time zone here. These values take precedence over the place list.

Latitude

Longitude

Time zone

Time standard of the recorded time Which clock the birth time was read from. The time-zone database already includes Madras Time (before 1906), IST and war time; choose another standard only for old horoscopes kept in local or city time.

Manual UTC offset Leave empty normally. If the birth record states the offset from UTC, enter it as +hh:mm or +hh:mm:ss, e.g. +05:30, +06:30 (war time) or +05:21:10 (Madras Time). Whole minutes such as 330 also work.

Options

Calculation settings and saving

Calculation profile

Private by default. Birth details are sent securely and are not stored unless you choose to save them to your account. They never appear in page addresses.

About Lal Kitab

Lal Kitab (“the red book”) is a body of five Urdu volumes attributed to Pt. Roop Chand Joshi of Punjab, published between 1939 and 1952 (Lal Kitab ke Farmaan 1939, Lal Kitab ke Armaan 1940, Gutka 1941, the revised 1942 volume and the final 1952 edition). It reads the chart by fixed houses and is known for simple household remedies (upay).

The Lal Kitab Varshphal (the 120-year table that moves the houses year by year) is not included: we could not verify a public copy of the table, so it is left out rather than guessed.

Sources

Rules as commonly printed from Pt. Roop Chand Joshi’s Lal Kitab (1939–1952 editions), via public secondary references: the Lal Kitab e-book at astrosage.com/lalkitab (planet-in-house effects and upay), lalkitabupay.wordpress.com (sleeping planets and houses, Lal Kitab 1952 pp. 96–97), lalkitab1952.blogspot.com (masnui planets, Lal Kitab 1941 p. 392) and sushmajee.com (aspects). Readings are paraphrased; upay are selected for safety.