Vedic Grid Combinations

What this long-form adds to the Vedic Grid calculator

The calculator above builds the book's own Vedic Grid from your birth date, lays it out in a 3-1-9 / 6-7-5 / 2-8-4 arrangement and lists every named pattern it finds. The copy above explains the five pattern families and the rule for empty cells. This section lays out the whole catalogue of forty-seven patterns, shows how often each one actually occurs across seventy-six years of birth dates, looks closely at how the grid is built and how the nil-cell rule works, compares several dates, and is careful about the strong wording some of the source's rows carry. Every count below comes from running this app's engine.

The source and the layout

The engine draws on one book, Advanced Vedic Numerology by Pankaj Chauhan of AstroEduConsultancy, which the engine's header describes as distinct from the sources behind the rest of this site's numerology. Two systems come from it: this grid-pattern engine and a numerology dasha timeline, which runs on its own calculator. The grid is cast the book's way, not the Lo Shu way. Only the day, the month and the last two digits of the year are counted - the book's first worked grid carries the instruction not to add the 19 of the century (PDF p.13). The Bhagyank, your full birth-date total reduced to one digit, is then added once, and so is the Moolank, the day reduced to one digit, unless the day is 1 to 9, 10, 20 or 30, when the day's own digit already is the Moolank (the same p.13 note, and the Permanent Grid of 1/4/1988 on p.149). A master Bhagyank of 11, 22 or 33 goes in as 2, 4 or 6, since the grid has only cells 1 to 9. Zeros are never counted.

The arrangement is 3, 1, 9 across the top, 6, 7, 5 through the middle and 2, 8, 4 along the bottom. The pattern names in the engine attach planets to digits in the order this site's numerology uses everywhere: 1 Sun, 2 Moon, 3 Jupiter, 4 Rahu, 5 Mercury, 6 Venus, 7 Ketu, 8 Saturn, 9 Mars. Seen as planets, the layout reads Jupiter, Sun, Mars over Venus, Ketu, Mercury over Moon, Saturn, Rahu - with Ketu, the 7, at the centre.

This is neither the count nor the order the Lo Shu Grid page shows. That page counts every written digit, century included, and draws them as 4 9 2 / 3 5 7 / 8 1 6; this one leaves out the century, adds the Moolank and Bhagyank, and draws 3 1 9 / 6 7 5 / 2 8 4. Take 22 April 1981, the book's own example: the Lo Shu count holds 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 8, 9, while the Vedic Grid holds 1, 22, 44, 8, 9 - one 1 from the 81, a second 4 from the Moolank and the 9 from the Bhagyank. Leaving out the 19 matters: under the old Lo Shu count every twentieth-century birth had the 1-9 Conjunction, and now about one date in three does.

The forty-seven patterns in five families

The engine runs five fixed lists against your grid. Each row carries a tone - favourable, mixed or testing - fixed in the table, not computed. Across the forty-seven rows there are fourteen favourable, sixteen mixed and seventeen testing.

Arrows

The eight arrows are every straight line through a three-by-three grid: the three rows (3-1-9, 6-7-5, 2-8-4), the three columns (3-6-2, 1-7-8, 9-5-4) and the two diagonals (3-7-4, 9-7-2). The source's readings, in a phrase each: 3-1-9 is presented as the best combination in the grid, tied to administration and a strong mind, with cautions about diet and marriage; 6-7-5 to business and enjoyment of life; 2-8-4 to success after long effort; 3-6-2 to teaching and counselling; 1-7-8 to spiritual and social work; 9-5-4 to uniformed fields and struggle; 3-7-4 to professional success at a cost to the parents' ease; and 9-7-2 to courage alongside hard work. An arrow needs only its three cells filled; nothing has to be empty.

Conjunctions

The twelve conjunctions are every pair of cells that touch along a side: six across (3-1, 1-9, 6-7, 7-5, 2-8, 8-4) and six down (3-6, 6-2, 1-7, 7-8, 9-5, 5-4). Five are favourable - 3-1, 1-9, 3-6, 1-7 and 7-5 - and six testing, including 2-8, which the source calls a genuinely difficult combination, and 6-2 and 6-7, whose texts concern relationships. 9-5 is the only mixed one; its text is also the one that talks about repetition, distinguishing a 9 with two 5s from a 9 with three. Like the arrows, conjunctions are presence-only.

Angulars and trines

The nine angulars are three-cell L shapes plus one four-cell square, (1, 6, 8, 5). Three are favourable - (1, 3, 6), (1, 7, 9) and (1, 9, 5) - three mixed and three testing. Each of the eight L shapes has one cell the book marks nil: (1, 7, 5) needs 9 empty, (1, 7, 6) needs 3, (1, 3, 6) needs 7, (1, 7, 9) needs 5, (7, 5, 4) needs 8, and (1, 9, 5), (5, 4, 8) and (6, 2, 8) all need 7 (PDF p.122-126). The square marks none. The four trines each need two cells empty: (1, 2, 4), testing, with 7 and 8 empty; (3, 9, 8), mixed, with 1 and 7 empty; (3, 2, 5), favourable, with 6 and 7 empty; and (6, 9, 4), mixed, with 7 and 5 empty (PDF p.127-129).

How the aspect rule actually works

Aspects are where the nil cells matter most. The book opens its aspect section with the line "Nil means the place should be not filled" (PDF p.119), and every aspect diagram from there to p.135 marks the cells that must stay empty. Six aspects are straight: they join the two ends of a row or column, and the single middle cell must be empty. The other eight are called retro: they join two cells by an L-shaped path, and both cells on that path must be empty. A row fires only when both of its digits are present and every nil cell is absent.

Read against the layout, every nil cell now sits where the drawing says it should. 1-8 joins the top and bottom of the centre column and needs the 7 between them empty; 3-9 joins the ends of the top row and needs the 1 empty. For a retro aspect such as 1-2, the L from the 1 at top centre to the 2 at bottom left runs through 3 and 6, and both must be empty. An earlier version of this engine stored a single gap digit per aspect that matched the book in only one of the fourteen rows - 1-8 used 9, 3-9 used 6 - and ignored the nil cells of the angulars and trines altogether. Those rows were corrected against the page images, and the counts on this page are from the corrected engine.

This matters when you compare pages. The Sepharial Grid has a family called opponent combinations built on the same six straight pairs - 1-8, 3-2, 9-4, 3-9, 6-5 and 2-4 - and its own book also leaves the middle cell empty, so the two engines now agree on the rule. They still disagree on the grid. The Sepharial Grid reads the Lo Shu count, century and all, while this page reads the book's Vedic Grid. Across every date from 1950 to 2025, the Vedic 1-8 Aspect fires on 5,391 dates and the Sepharial Sun-Saturn opponent, the same two digits with the same 7 empty, on 6,440. The difference is entirely what each grid counts.

The planet names in brackets belong to the eight retro aspects, and all of them match the digits by the order above: 9-8 is Saturn and Mars, 1-4 is Rahu and the Sun, 6-9 is Mars and Venus. The six straight aspects carry no planet names. The 9-4 row used to be labelled Rahu-Sun, which matched neither digit; the book prints it plainly as the 9-4 aspect with no number between them (PDF p.120), and the engine now does the same.

How often each pattern occurs

Every one of the forty-seven patterns appears on at least one date from 1950 to 2025. With the century left out, no single pattern dominates the way the 1-9 Conjunction once did; the commonest now appear on about one date in three. The most and least common:

The top of the table is all two-cell patterns, and most of them touch the 1. That is the grid's construction showing through: 1 is the digit most often present, on about three dates in four, because it turns up in day and month numbers (1, 10 to 19, 21, 31, January, October to December) and is often added again as a Moolank or Bhagyank. Every other digit is absent on roughly half the dates or more - 3 on 57.3% and 4 on 59.5%. The 1-8 Aspect is the only aspect in the top ten: it needs the 1 and the 8 at either end of the centre column with the 7 between them empty, which is a common arrangement.

At the rare end sit the patterns that need several digits present and several others absent at once. The (3, 9, 8) Trine needs 3, 9 and 8 present with 1 and 7 both empty - and an empty 1 is the least likely condition of all - so it appears on only 324 dates. The favourable 3-1-9 Arrow, the source's highest-rated pattern, appears on 3,254 dates, 11.7%; a reader told they have the best combination in the grid may reasonably want to know it is shared with about one person in nine of their generation.

Family by family: the arrows, angulars and trines

The arrows are the family readers usually look for first. Their frequencies over the same 27,759 dates show how unevenly the calendar treats the grid's lines:

The spread is much narrower than a Lo Shu-based count would give, because no line gets a free pair of digits from the century. The centre column 1-7-8 leads, helped by the common 1; the lines through the 4 - the right column 9-5-4 and the diagonal 3-7-4 - trail, since 4 is the digit most often missing. Taken together, 12,392 of the 27,759 dates - 44.6% - have no complete arrow at all, so an empty arrow list is an ordinary outcome rather than a gap in the reading.

The conjunctions, being two-cell patterns with no nil cells, are far more common than the arrows. Every one of the twelve appears on at least 4,500 dates:

The three pairs that touch the 1 lead, and the testing 2-8 and 6-2 follow; both need a 2, which comes from days such as 2, 12 and 20 to 29, from February and December, from years like 72 or 2002, and from a Moolank or Bhagyank of 2. The page sample, 14 August 1994, has four conjunctions: 1-9, 9-5, 8-4 and 5-4.

The angulars sit in a tight band between about 4% and 10%, and the four that start from the 1 lead. The trines, each needing two cells empty, are rarer; the two that need the 1 or the 5 empty as well as the 7, (3, 9, 8) and (6, 9, 4), are the two rarest patterns in the engine. The four-cell quadrangular, the only pattern that needs four digits and the only angular with no nil cell, appears on one date in twenty.

How many patterns a date usually has

The same run counts the patterns found per date. The median date has six. Only 126 dates in the whole range find none; at the other end, the most any date finds is fourteen. Most dates fall between four and nine.

A long list is not a stronger reading, and a short one is not a weaker one. The number of patterns depends mostly on how many distinct digits the grid holds, but the nil cells cut both ways: a grid with every digit present finds every arrow and conjunction yet no aspect, angular L or trine, because each of those needs something empty. That is why the ceiling is fourteen rather than forty-seven. A grid with very few digits finds few rows of any kind.

Favourable against testing, across a generation

Because the tone is fixed per row, it is possible to ask how the tones balance out on a typical date. Counting the favourable and testing rows returned for every date from 1950 to 2025 gives this:

This book's grid, as transcribed, leans slightly towards testing across the range: four dates in ten return more testing rows than favourable, a little under four in ten the reverse. The reason is mostly the conjunctions, where six of the twelve are testing and several of those - 2-8, 6-2, 7-8, 6-7 - are among the commonest patterns. The engine does not add these up for you, and the table above is not a score this app shows anywhere; it is here so that a reader whose list happens to lean testing can see that this is the more usual outcome, not a sign of anything particular. The Sepharial Grid, reading a different count from a different book, has its own balance, set out in its own long-form.

Several dates through the engine

Three things show up here. First, 1972-09-17 and 1997-02-01 are written with exactly the same digits, 1, 2, 7 and 9, yet return nine patterns and five. The Moolank and Bhagyank differ - 8 and 9 for the first, 1 and 2 for the second - so the first grid gains an 8 and the second does not. Second, 1976-05-16 has 6, 7 and 5 all present, so the 6-7-5 Arrow completes and the 6-5 Aspect, which needs that 7 empty, correctly does not fire. Third, the last two rows are the book's own worked readings: 16/4/2000 shows the 1-4 and 6-4 retro aspects and the (1, 7, 6) angle (PDF p.199), and 13/10/2009 reads the 3-1-9 and 3-7-4 arrows, the 1-7 pair and the 9-4 aspect (PDF p.198). The engine returns all of them.

The sample date is a good illustration of how the casting rule changes the answer. Written out, 14 August 1994 has only 1, 4, 8 and 9. The century is dropped, leaving 1, 4, 8, 9, 4; the Moolank 5 (from 14) and the Bhagyank 9 (from the total 36) are added. That 5 completes the 9-5-4 Arrow and fills the cell the 9-4 Aspect needs empty, so the arrow appears and that aspect does not.

Reading the tone and the text

Each pattern returned carries its cells, its name, its tone and its text. The tone is the engine's three-way summary of the source's reading; it is stored with the row and never adjusted for anything else in your date. The text is the source's wording as transcribed, and the engine's own comments treat that English as the quotation of record.

Some texts are blunt. They mention delayed marriage, family friction, loss, court matters, accidents and, in a few places, health conditions. The page keeps the source's words rather than softening them into something the book did not say, and one row carries the engine's own bracketed reminder that this app never predicts specific misfortune. The calculator's FAQ puts it plainly: a testing row is a theme to reflect on, not a verdict. It belongs to a digit pattern shared by every grid with those digits - for the common patterns, a fifth to a third of a generation.

When two returned rows seem to pull in different directions - a favourable conjunction and a testing angular on the same date, as on the sample - the engine does not net them off or rank them. Each is the source's reading of a different shape. This page cannot tell you which to weigh more, because the book as transcribed gives no rule for combining them.

What the engine does not do with repetition

The engine's notes are explicit that detection is by presence only, matching the book's own phrasing about cells being filled or not. A few row texts - most clearly the 9-5 conjunction and the 2-8 conjunction - describe how the reading changes as a digit repeats, but the source gives worked examples rather than a complete rule for every pattern, so the engine keeps those remarks as prose and does not branch on them. If your grid has three 5s and a 9, the 9-5 row appears exactly as it would with one 5, and the text itself describes the difference. That is a deliberate choice not to invent rules the book does not state. Repetition does show in the grid itself, which is returned alongside the patterns.

Where the Vedic Grid sits among the grid calculators

• Lo Shu Grid - every written digit, century included, in the 4 9 2 order. A different count from this page; comparing the two shows what the century and the added Moolank and Bhagyank change.
• Sepharial Grid - the same 3 1 9 layout read by a different book, over the Lo Shu count. All eight of its line combinations sit on exactly the same cells as the eight arrows here, with different planetary names and different texts. Both are shown rather than merged.
• 81 Combinations - from the same Advanced Vedic Numerology, but a different table: it rates your Mulank against your Bhagyank instead of reading the grid.
• Numerology Dasha - the same book's timing system, a forty-five-year cycle of planetary periods starting from your Mulank.
• Hidden and Shadow Numbers - also from this book, built from the weekday, the sun sign and parts of the year.

For background on digit grids in general, the article on missing numbers in the Lo Shu grid is the place to start. Signed-in readers see the same Vedic Grid and its combinations on the Numerology page alongside the rest of their profile.

Checking a result by hand

1. 1.Build the grid. For 23 April 1973, count the digits of 23, 4 and 73 - 2, 3, 4, 7, 3 - leaving out the 19. The day 23 is not 1-9, 10, 20 or 30, so add the Moolank 2 + 3 = 5. Add the Bhagyank: 2+3+4+1+9+7+3 = 29, then 11, then 2. The grid is 22, 33, 4, 5, 7: present 2, 3, 4, 5, 7; empty 1, 6, 8, 9.
2. 2.Draw the layout 3 1 9 / 6 7 5 / 2 8 4 and shade the present digits.
3. 3.Arrows: look for any full row, column or diagonal. Only the diagonal 3-7-4 is full; 6-7-5 lacks the 6 and 9-5-4 lacks the 9.
4. 4.Conjunctions: look for shaded cells touching along a side. 7-5 and 5-4 qualify; 3-1 does not, because 1 is empty.
5. 5.Aspects: for each row in the aspect table above, check both digits are present and every nil cell is empty. 3-2 needs 6 empty (it is), 2-4 needs 8 empty (it is) and 3-5 needs 1 and 9 empty (both are). 2-5 needs 8 and 4 empty and fails on the 4.
6. 6.Angulars and trines: check every cell is shaded and every nil cell is not. (7, 5, 4) qualifies with 8 empty; (3, 2, 5) has its cells but fails because its nil cell 7 is filled.

That gives the seven patterns the engine returns for this date. The two steps that catch people out are building the grid - leaving out the century and remembering the Moolank and Bhagyank - and the nil cells: a shape with all its digits present still does not count if a cell it needs empty is filled.

Limits worth keeping in view

The engine is a faithful pattern-matcher over one book's tables, and that is all it claims to be. It does not test the book, and nothing on this site treats a pattern as evidence about a person. The input is shared by large groups - every grid with the same set of digits returns the same list. The casting rule follows the book's worked grids; one later example in the book, the hidden and shadow numbers illustration on p.203, draws 1/4/1988 without the Bhagyank, which contradicts its own Permanent Grid of the same date on p.149, and the engine follows p.149. The texts are the source's, strong wording included, and they describe tendencies the book attaches to shapes, not events this app forecasts.

How the site handles sources, transcription and uncertainty is set out on the methodology page; the books themselves are listed on Sources.

More questions about the Vedic Grid

Why does the 1-9 Conjunction not appear for every 1900s birth?

Because the Vedic Grid leaves out the century. The book's first worked grid says not to add the 19 (PDF p.13), so a 1900s year only contributes its last two digits. Across 1950 to 2025 the 1-9 Conjunction appears on 32.9% of dates. The Lo Shu Grid, which counts the 19, is a different count.

Is the empty cell for an aspect always the one between the two digits?

Yes, as the book draws them. A straight aspect needs the single middle cell empty; a retro aspect needs both cells of its L-shaped path empty. The table on this page lists every nil cell.

Which pattern is the rarest?

The (3, 9, 8) Trine, on 324 of 27,759 dates from 1950 to 2025, followed by the (6, 9, 4) Trine on 678. The first needs the 1 empty, and 1 is present on about three dates in four.

Can two different dates give exactly the same patterns?

Yes, whenever their Vedic Grids hold the same set of digits. But dates written with the same digits can differ once the Moolank and Bhagyank are added: 17 September 1972 returns nine patterns and 1 February 1997 returns five.

Why do the Vedic Grid and the Sepharial Grid disagree about the same pair?

They use the same rule for their straight pairs - the middle cell empty - but count different grids. The Sepharial Grid reads the Lo Shu count with the century; this page reads the book's Vedic Grid without it and with the Moolank and Bhagyank added.

Does the page translate the pattern texts?

The engine has Hinglish and Hindi versions of every row, but the calculator request carries no language, so this page returns the English. Each row's English in the engine is treated as the transcription of record.

Why does the 9-4 aspect carry no planet names?

Because the book prints it plainly as the 9-4 aspect with no number between them (PDF p.120). An earlier label, Rahu-Sun, matched neither digit - in this site's order 9 is Mars and 4 is Rahu - and was dropped. Detection depends only on 9 and 4 being present and 5 being empty.

Do the planet names change how a pattern is detected?

No. The names in brackets are part of each row's label and text. Detection only looks at which digits are present and, for aspects, angulars and trines, which nil cells are empty. Two rows sharing a planet are still tested independently.

What does a total of zero mean?

That none of the forty-seven shapes is complete for your grid. It happened on 126 of 27,759 dates in the run. It is the absence of a match, not a reading in itself.

Should I act on a testing pattern?

This app does not prescribe remedies. A testing row is the source's reading of a digit shape that a large share of people share. If a theme in it is useful to reflect on, reflect on it; nothing here predicts an event.