81 Combinations Grid

What this long-form adds to the 81 Combinations calculator

The calculator above reads two numbers from your birth date - the Mulank and the Bhagyank - and looks the pair up in a printed nine-by-nine grid, checks it against two shortlists, and returns a one-line reading where the source has one. The copy above explains the lookup, the order of the two numbers, the master-number rule and the one pair where the grid and the best list disagree. This section prints the whole grid, shows how its eighty-one cells are distributed, sets every one-line reading beside its ratings, finds the other places where the book's tables do not line up, and shows how the pairs actually fall across seventy-six years of birth dates. All figures come from running this app's engine.

The source and its parts

The engine takes all of this from Advanced Vedic Numerology by Pankaj Chauhan of AstroEduConsultancy. This site's numerology rules cite the PDF's pages: the grid of eighty-one combinations is on page 40, the one-line readings for Destiny-Conductor pairs - the book's own term, kept as printed - on page 38, the definition of the Destiny Number on page 18 and the Master Numbers page on page 33. The same book also supplies the Vedic Grid patterns, the numerology dasha and the Hidden and Shadow numbers elsewhere on this site.

Four separate pieces of that book meet on this one calculator, and it helps to keep them apart. The grid gives one of five ratings for each ordered pair. Two shortlists name eight pairs as best and ten as worst. Eighteen unordered pairs carry a one-line reading. And a fourth table in the same engine, not shown on this page, rates any two numbers as friend, neutral or enemy. Each is looked up separately, and the engine never blends them into one answer.

The whole grid

Rows are the Mulank, columns the Bhagyank. VG is Very Good, G Good, A Average, B Bad and VB Very Bad. An asterisk marks a pair on the best shortlist, an exclamation mark a pair on the worst shortlist.

Of the eighty-one cells, 34 are Average, 15 Very Good, 12 Good, 10 Bad and 10 Very Bad. So the single most likely rating for any cell is Average, and the grid is close to balanced between its good side (27 cells) and its bad side (20 cells).

Row by row: each Mulank across the nine Bhagyanks

Reading the grid one row at a time shows what each Mulank's line of the table looks like before any calendar effects. These are counts of the nine cells in each row.

Mulank 1's row is the most favourable in the table, with four Very Good cells and a single Very Bad one (Bhagyank 8). Mulank 5's row has no Bad or Very Bad cell at all. Mulank 8's row is the least favourable, with three Very Bad cells - Bhagyank 1, 2 and 4 - and Mulank 4 and 6 have no Very Good cell anywhere in their rows. The column for Bhagyank 1 is the kindest column: five of its nine cells are Very Good, and only Mulank 8 meets it with Very Bad.

One more pattern is easy to miss. The diagonal - the cells where the Mulank and the Bhagyank are the same number - contains no Good or Very Good cell. Six of the nine same-number pairs are Average and three (4-4, 7-7 and 8-8) are Bad. Whatever the book intends by that, the table as transcribed never rates a doubled number favourably.

Column by column: each Bhagyank

The columns tell much the same story as the rows, which is what an almost symmetric table should do. Bhagyank 2 is the flattest column - six Average cells and nothing above Average - so a reader whose Bhagyank is 2, or 11 read as 2, cannot reach a Good or Very Good rating with any Mulank. Bhagyank 4, which includes everyone whose 22 is read as 4, has no Very Good cell either. Bhagyank 6, which includes 33 read as 6, likewise tops out at Good. So the master-number rule, by folding 11, 22 and 33 into these three columns, places every master-number reader in a column with no Very Good cell at all.

What the result contains

The calculator returns two objects. The rating object carries the ordered pair as Mulank-Bhagyank, the rating word, a display label for it, a highlighted field that is best, bad or empty depending on the shortlists, and - only when a master number was folded - fromMasterNumber with the original 11, 22 or 33. The engine's comments explain that the rating word is kept in English deliberately, because the page decides the badge colour by reading it; translating it in place once greyed every badge out. The second object, the one-line reading, is either empty or carries the sorted pair and the line itself.

Nothing else is attached: no score, no percentage, no blend of the rating with the reading. If your pair has no one-line reading, that field is simply empty, and the page does not write one for you. The calculator's intro says the same: nothing is invented to fill the space.

Order matters in only two pairs

The calculator's method copy points out that Mulank 2 with Bhagyank 1 is Very Good while Mulank 1 with Bhagyank 2 is Average. Checking all thirty-six unordered pairs of different digits, that is one of only two where the order changes the rating. The other is 2 and 9: Mulank 2 with Bhagyank 9 is Bad, while Mulank 9 with Bhagyank 2 is Average. Every other pair reads the same either way round. The grid is almost symmetric, which is worth knowing because it means that for most readers, swapping which number is the Mulank and which the Bhagyank would make no difference to the rating.

The shortlists against the grid

The book's best and worst shortlists are separate lists printed alongside the grid, and the engine carries both as given. They are symmetric - every pair appears in both orders - and they are not complete summaries of the grid.

• Best list: 1-5, 5-1, 2-1, 1-2, 9-1, 1-9, 3-7, 7-3. Seven of these eight cells are Very Good in the grid. The eighth, 1-2, is Average - the disagreement the calculator's FAQ already notes.
• Worst list: 2-8, 8-2, 1-8, 8-1, 3-6, 6-3, 9-4, 4-9, 2-6, 6-2. All ten are Bad or Very Bad in the grid, so this list and the grid never contradict each other.
• Very Good cells not on the best list: eight, including 5-8 and 8-5, 1-3 and 3-1, 1-7 and 7-1, and 3-9 and 9-3.
• Very Bad cells not on the worst list: four - 4-8, 8-4, 6-9 and 9-6.

So a pair can be rated Very Bad in the grid and still be absent from the worst list, and a pair can be Very Good and absent from the best list. The page shows the grid's rating and, separately, whether the pair is on a shortlist, so you can see when the two parts of the book agree and when they do not.

The eighteen one-line readings, beside their ratings

The one-line readings are keyed by the two numbers sorted, so a line applies whichever is your Mulank. Here they are with the grid rating in both orders and the shortlist status. The readings are condensed paraphrases of the source's lines.

Two patterns stand out. The lines generally agree in direction with the ratings: the two clearly positive lines, 1-9 and 3-7, sit on Very Good best-list pairs, and most negative lines sit on Bad or Very Bad cells. But there are softer edges. 8-9 and 9-9 carry cautionary lines on Average cells; 6-9 has a line that mixes difficulty and financial success on a Very Bad cell that is not on the worst list; and 5-8's line is a single word about property on a Very Good cell. A one-line reading is a separate part of the book, and the page shows it as such rather than letting it override the rating.

How master numbers are read

This site keeps 11, 22 and 33 as the Bhagyank wherever it can, but the grid has no row or column for them. The rules doc records the fix and its source: the book's own Destiny Number is a full reduction (its example reduces 31 to 4), and its Master Numbers page says people on a master number start off reflecting the potential of 2, 4 and 6. So for this table and the one-line readings only, 11 is read as 2, 22 as 4 and 33 as 6, and the result carries fromMasterNumber so the page can say so. Before this was in place, readers with a master Bhagyank received no rating at all; the engine's comment estimates them at roughly one reader in eight.

The run across every date from 1950 to 2025 puts the share a little higher, at 4,401 of 27,759, or 15.9% - about one date in six. Two worked examples from the rules doc, confirmed by the engine run:

• 1 February 1997: Mulank 1; the digits 1 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 29 give Bhagyank 11, read as 2. The cell 1-2 is Average, with no one-line reading - and because 1-2 is on the best shortlist, the result is also highlighted best. This reader sees both an Average rating and a best-list mark, which is the one disagreement in the book's tables, met through a master number.
• 1 November 1990: Mulank 1; the digits total 22, read as 4. The cell 1-4 is Average, and the 1-4 one-line reading applies.

Several dates through the engine

1 November 1990 and 1 April 1988 reach the same cell and the same reading by different routes, one through a master number. 4 February 1994 shows the sorting rule for readings: its cell is 4-2 (Mulank 4, Bhagyank 11 read as 2), and the reading keyed 2-4 applies to it because the readings ignore order.

One month, nine answers

Within a single month of a single year, moving the birthday forward by one day raises both the Mulank and the Bhagyank by one (with the usual wrap from 9 back to 1). So the result cycles through exactly nine answers every nine days. The engine's output for August 1994, the sample's month, shows the cycle:

Three things are worth seeing here. First, the sample's neighbours: someone born a day earlier, on 13 August, lands on a Very Bad cell with a cautionary reading; someone born a day later, on 15 August, on Average with nothing attached. Second, the 29th reaches 2-6 by a different route from the 2nd, 11th and 20th - its digits total 42, which reduces to 6 directly, while theirs total 33 and are read as 6 under the master-number rule - and lands in the same cell. Third, four of the nine answers in this month carry a shortlist mark, and four carry a one-line reading. A month in another year runs the same kind of cycle with a different starting point.

How the ratings fall across birth dates

Because the Mulank and Bhagyank are not independent of the calendar, pairs do not occur equally often. All 81 pairs appear in the run, from 412 dates each for the most common (1-1 and 1-2) down to 300 for the least common. The overall picture:

An Average rating is what about two readers in five will see, and a little under two in five will also see a one-line reading. The best and worst shortlists each cover around one date in nine or ten.

What your Mulank alone tends to give

Since the Mulank is just the day of the month reduced, it is worth seeing how each Mulank's dates spread across the ratings. The run shows some sharp differences:

• Mulank 1 never meets a Bad cell: its dates are Average or Very Good, except for the Very Bad 1-8.
• Mulank 4 never meets a Very Good cell: its dates are mostly Good, Bad or Very Bad, with Average the least common.
• Mulank 5 is the only Mulank whose dates meet neither Bad nor Very Bad - Average, Good and Very Good only.
• Mulank 8 spreads across all five ratings, with Very Bad (909 dates) almost as common as Average (915).
• Mulank 9 meets only Average, Very Good and Very Bad - its row of the grid has no Good or Bad cell at all.

None of this is a statement about people born on those days; it is the shape of one row of a printed table. But it does tell a reader with Mulank 4, say, that a Bad rating is one of the two most common outcomes for their day of birth, and not a rare or personal result.

A second table from the same book that does not always agree

The engine also carries the book's Number Compatibility table, which labels any number friend, neutral or enemy to another. It is used elsewhere in the app, not on this calculator, and it was not designed as a key to the 81 grid. Still, reading the two side by side for all eighty-one ordered pairs shows how loosely the book's tables hang together. Of the cells where the first number counts the second as a friend, 19 are Good or Very Good, 6 Average and 3 Bad or Very Bad. Of the enemy cells, 14 are Bad or Very Bad and 9 Average. The neutral cells are mostly Average (19), with 8 on the good side and 3 Bad.

The sharpest clash is 4 and 8: each lists the other as a friend in the compatibility table, yet both 4-8 and 8-4 are Very Bad in the grid, and 4-8 carries a cautionary one-line reading. For the sample date the two tables happen to agree - 9 is neutral to 5, and 5-9 is Average. Where they disagree, this app does not choose. Each table is shown in its own place with its own label.

Reading a result without over-reading it

• Read the rating first, then the shortlist mark, then the one-line reading, and treat them as three separate statements from one book. They usually point the same way; when they do not, as with 1-2, the disagreement is in the source, not in your date.
• Remember how many people share your cell. With 81 cells and a little over 27,000 dates in the run, each cell covers around 340 birth dates in the period, and every one of them sees the same answer.
• If the result says your Bhagyank was read from a master number, your rating comes from the column for 2, 4 or 6. That is a documented rule from the book, but it also means a master number can never reach a Very Good cell here.
• Do not average the rating with anything else on the site. The engine never blends this table with the Vedic Grid, the compatibility table or your chart, and neither should a reader; each is a different question.
• Treat a one-line reading as the book's sentence about a digit pair. Several mention marriage or health. Nothing on this page assesses either, and the app recommends no remedies for them.

Where this calculator connects

Both input numbers come from the Life Path calculator, and the difference between them is explained in Mulank, Bhagyank and the Life Path. The same book's grid patterns are on the Vedic Grid, its timing system on the Numerology Dasha, and its hidden numbers on Hidden and Shadow Numbers. Signed-in readers see the same 81-grid rating inside their Numerology reading, computed by the same function.

The grid compares two numbers from one person. Comparing two people is a different job, done on the Compatibility page with its own systems. For the meaning the site's sources attach to a single digit, the number pages go through each, for example number 5 in numerology for the sample's Mulank.

Checking a result by hand

1. 1.Mulank: reduce the day of the month to one digit. 14 gives 5.
2. 2.Bhagyank: add every digit of the day, month and year and reduce, stopping at 11, 22 or 33. 14 August 1994 gives 36, then 9.
3. 3.If the Bhagyank is 11, 22 or 33, use 2, 4 or 6 for this table.
4. 4.Find the row for the Mulank and the column for the Bhagyank in the grid above. 5-9 is Average.
5. 5.Check the asterisk and exclamation marks for the shortlists, then sort the two digits and look for them in the one-line table. 5-9 has neither.

Limits worth keeping in view

The calculator is four straight lookups in one book's tables. Two numbers drive it, both from the date, so everyone who shares your Mulank and Bhagyank gets the same answer. The grid and its shortlists do not fully agree with each other, the one-line readings sometimes sit uneasily with the ratings beside them, and a second table in the same book disagrees with the grid in places. The engine shows all of it as printed rather than tidying it up. The one-line readings include health and marriage claims; they are the book's, attached to a pair of digits that roughly one date in eighty shares, and they are not an assessment of you.

The site's approach to sources and conflicting tables is set out on the methodology page, and the book itself is listed on Sources.

More questions about the 81 Combinations grid

Which rating is most common?

Average. It is the rating of 34 of the 81 cells and of 41.7% of birth dates from 1950 to 2025.

Does it matter which number is the Mulank and which the Bhagyank?

For the rating, only in two pairs: 1 and 2 (Mulank 2 with Bhagyank 1 is Very Good, the reverse Average) and 2 and 9 (Mulank 2 with Bhagyank 9 is Bad, the reverse Average). The one-line readings ignore order entirely.

My pair is Very Bad but not on the worst list. Is that a mistake?

It is how the book's tables read. Four Very Bad cells - 4-8, 8-4, 6-9 and 9-6 - are not on the worst shortlist. The engine carries the grid and the shortlists separately, as printed.

Why is 1-2 on the best list but rated Average?

The grid cell and the shortlist disagree in the source as transcribed. It is the only pair where a shortlist contradicts the grid. The page shows both rather than overriding either.

How many readers have their Bhagyank read from a master number?

About one in six: 4,401 of 27,759 dates from 1950 to 2025 reach 11, 22 or 33 and are read at 2, 4 or 6 for this table. The result says so when it happens.

Is there a pair that never occurs?

No. All 81 pairs occur in the period run. The most common, 1-1 and 1-2, each cover 412 dates; the least common cover 300.

Where do friend, neutral and enemy numbers come from, and do they match this grid?

From a different table in the same book, the Number Compatibility table, which the signed-in numerology reading carries for your Mulank. It is not a key to the 81 grid, and in places the two disagree - most sharply for 4 and 8, which are friends in one and Very Bad in the other.

Can a master-number Bhagyank ever be rated Very Good?

Not in this table. 11, 22 and 33 are read in the columns for 2, 4 and 6, and none of those three columns contains a Very Good cell. The best a master-number reader can receive is Good, through the 4 or 6 columns.

Why does someone born a day before me get a completely different answer?

Because moving the birthday by one day moves both numbers by one, which lands on a different cell. In August 1994, the 13th is Very Bad, the 14th Average and the 15th Average with a different pair. The answers repeat every nine days.

Is a doubled number, such as Mulank 4 with Bhagyank 4, ever favourable?

No. All nine same-number cells are Average or Bad in the grid as transcribed: 4-4, 7-7 and 8-8 are Bad, the other six Average.

Does a Very Bad rating mean something bad will happen?

No. It is one book's label for a pair of digits that hundreds of birth dates share. This app does not forecast events from it and does not prescribe remedies.