About Dekho Panchang

Dekho Panchang is built and maintained by Aditya Jha – a Maithil Brahmin from Mithila with deep roots in the Vedic tradition, and a software engineer by training.

Aditya grew up steeped in the rhythms of Mithila — the panchang consulted at dawn, the tithi-based vrats observed at home, Sanskrit shlokas memorised before they were understood. The interest never faded into nostalgia. Adult life kept him close to the source texts: the Surya Siddhanta's astronomical mathematics, the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra's interpretive framework, the Muhurta Chintamani's discipline of timing. This is not a subject he picked up; it is what he grew up inside.

Software is the other native tongue. Years of building systems at scale made one pattern unmistakable: classical Jyotish has always been a computational discipline. Sūtras compress algorithms; verses encode sky-models. What was frustrating was watching modern panchang sites bury that precision under marketing claims, paid "reports", and opaque calculations. Dekho Panchang exists to put the computation back where it belongs — open, verifiable, free.

This project was born from a simple conviction: the astronomical and astrological knowledge preserved in texts like the Surya Siddhanta and Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra deserves to be accessible to everyone – not locked behind paywalls or simplified beyond recognition.

Every calculation on this site is done from first principles. Planetary positions use the Swiss Ephemeris (NASA JPL DE441) with Meeus algorithms as fallback. Panchang elements and interpretive rules are computed using classical Jyotish prescriptions, anchored to named canonical sources. There are no external astrology APIs – just mathematics, the same mathematics our ancestors encoded thousands of years ago, now running in your browser.

This is a passion project, not a corporation. If you find value in it, that is the best reward.

Software expertise alone does not qualify anyone to encode Jyotish. Every interpretive module on this site was developed in consultation with multiple jyotishacharyas — scholars who carry the living tradition, trained in the Parashari, Jaimini, and KP systems. Their involvement shapes the substantive decisions, not just the surface labelling.

Which yogas are canonical and which are folk additions; the correct sequencing of Dasha–Antardasha–Pratyantar interpretation; the BPHS-faithful tables for Shadbala, Ashtakavarga, and divisional charts; the muhurta exclusions that classical compilers explicitly catalogued (Vishti, Bhadra, Panchaka, Wednesday Abhijit). Where modern texts disagreed, we consulted the canonical sources directly and recorded the decision in our public specifications so any future maintainer can audit the reasoning.

The result is software an acharya would recognise — not as a simplification of the discipline, but as a faithful rendering of it.