Manglik dosha, also called Mangal dosha or Kuja dosha, is one of the most talked about, and most misunderstood, checks in Vedic astrology. It looks at where Mars sits in your birth chart relative to two reference points: your lagna (ascendant, the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment you were born) and your Moon sign. Mars is the planet of drive, courage and conflict, and classical texts hold that when it occupies certain houses from either reference point, it can add friction, impatience or delay to marriage and partnership matters. It is a real, calculable placement, not a verdict on your character or your future happiness.

This calculator checks Mars against six houses: the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th and 12th, counted separately from your lagna and from your Moon sign. This six house list is the union of the different regional traditions: North Indian practice typically drops the 2nd house from its own list, and some South Indian schools drop the 1st house (the lagna itself), so you may see a narrower five house version quoted elsewhere. We show the full union so nothing is hidden, and we tell you exactly which houses triggered the result, from which reference point, rather than handing you a single unexplained yes or no.

The verdict has three working states. If Mars falls in one of the six houses from neither your lagna nor your Moon, the calculator reports no dosha at all. If it falls from only one of the two reference points, that is usually treated as a partial or milder form. If Mars occupies a dosha house from both your lagna and your Moon at once, classical texts treat this as the fuller, stronger form of the dosha, unless a cancellation rule applies. We report which of these three states your chart is in, plus the exact house count from each point, so you can see the working, not just the label.

Cancellation (nivarana) matters as much as the placement itself, and this is the part most casual readings skip. This calculator checks two of the most widely accepted cancellation rules: Mars sitting in its own sign, Aries or Scorpio, and Mars exalted in Capricorn. Both conditions are understood across most classical schools to substantially soften or cancel the dosha, because a planet placed with dignity acts differently than one placed weakly. There are further contested cancellation rules in some traditions, such as retrograde motion or aspect based relief, which this calculator does not apply, since they are genuinely doctrine dependent and we would rather show you a conservative, defensible result than a generous one that different astrologers would disagree on.

If you do not know your exact birth time, you can still run this calculator: it uses your Moon sign and a 12 noon placeholder lagna, and reports the verdict from the Moon reference only, marking the result as Moon-only certainty. This is honest about its own limits, because the lagna genuinely shifts roughly one sign every two hours, so a guessed time can put Mars in the wrong house from the ascendant entirely. If marriage compatibility is the real question on your mind, get your exact birth time from a hospital record or a parent if you can, since the full picture depends on it.

One thing worth saying plainly: a Manglik verdict, even the fuller form, is not a prediction of an unhappy marriage, and it is not something that requires an expensive remedy to fix. It is one placement among dozens in a full chart, and traditional matching (kundli milan) already accounts for it by checking both partners' charts together, not by treating one person's Mars as a problem in isolation. Two Manglik charts are often considered to neutralize each other under classical rules. Purohit exists partly to be the second opinion here: the computation above is deterministic and free, so if someone tells you that only a paid puja can fix a Manglik chart, you now have the actual math to check that claim yourself.

To see this placement inside your complete birth chart, alongside your full planet table, dasha timeline, and panchang at birth, generate your free kundli. And if you want to talk through what your specific result means, including whether a cancellation applies to you, chat with Purohit on WhatsApp: it is the same engine, with plain language explanations added.