Anandadi Yoga Chart: 28 Yogas by Weekday and Nakshatra

The anandadi yogas are 28 names, from Ananda to Pravardhamana, that a day receives from two things only: its weekday and the nakshatra the Moon occupies. They are set out in four consecutive verses of Rama Daivajna’s Muhurta Chintamani, and they are not the yoga printed in a daily panchang, which is one of 27 names from Vishkambha to Vaidhriti read off the combined motion of the Sun and the Moon (that set has its own index of yoga pages). This page prints the verses, works out from them the full weekday-by-nakshatra chart, shows why the count has to use 28 nakshatras rather than 27, and then counts which name falls at each of 730 New Delhi sunrises from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027, followed by every vaar of November 2026.

The Verses: Muhurta Chintamani, Shubhashubha Prakarana 23 to 26

Verses 23 and 24 list the names in order:

आनन्दाख्यः कालदण्डश्च धूम्रो धाता सौम्यो ध्वांक्षकेतू क्रमेण
श्रीवत्साख्यो वज्रकं मुद्गरश्च च्छत्रं मित्रं मानसं पद्मलुम्बौ
उत्पातमृत्यू किल काणसिद्धी शुभोऽमृताख्यो मुसलं गदश्च
मातङ्गरक्षश्चरसुस्थिराख्यप्रवर्धमानाः फलदाः स्वनाम्ना

Sandhi runs several names together, so here they are separated, each in the shape it takes in the verse:

Two romanisations above follow the common romanised spelling rather than the verse: the 25th name is written raksha in the compound, and the 27th is susthira. Verse 24 ends फलदाः स्वनाम्ना, “giving results after their own names”. That phrase is the whole of what these verses say about results, and the names are left untranslated here for that reason (see the section on what this page does not give).

Verse 25 gives the starting point of the count for each weekday:

दास्रादर्के मृगादिन्दौ सार्पाद्भौमे कराद्बुधे
मैत्राद्गुरौ भृगौ वैश्वाद्गण्या मन्दे च वारुणात्

Where the Count Starts on Each Weekday

All but one nakshatra in verse 25 is named indirectly, by its deity or its emblem, and each stands in the ablative (“from”); the weekday is named by its planet. The third column shows where the site’s own nakshatra table backs each reading.

The rule is then a plain count. On a Sunday, a day whose nakshatra is Ashwini is Ananda, the next nakshatra gives Kaladanda, and so on through the list; on a Monday the same count begins at Mrigashira. Ananda therefore always falls on the weekday’s own starting nakshatra.

Why the Cycle Needs 28 Nakshatras

A list of 28 names counted across nakshatras only closes if there are 28 nakshatras, and the seven starting points show that the verse means a 28-fold list, with Abhijit counted between Uttara Ashadha and Shravana. In that list the starts sit at positions 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 25: each is exactly four places after the one before, and the last is four places before Ashwini again, so seven weekdays of four make 28. In the usual list of 27, every gap is still four except one: the step from Friday’s Uttara Ashadha to Saturday’s Shatabhisha shrinks to three, because it is the only step that passes over the place where Abhijit is missing.

The regular spacing has a consequence that the chart below makes visible. Moving one weekday on moves every name four places back in the list, so a single nakshatra row holds seven different names, and each of the 28 names appears exactly seven times in the chart, once under each weekday. No name has more cells than another. Abhijit here is the nakshatra, not the midday Abhijit muhurta that a daily panchang lists.

The Full Anandadi Yoga Chart

Every cell below is computed from verse 25’s starting points and the order of verses 23 and 24; none was typed by hand. Read across from the Moon’s nakshatra to the weekday.

Uttara Ashadha, Abhijit and Shravana

A modern panchang, including the one on this site, divides the sky into 27 equal nakshatras and gives Abhijit no span of its own. The 28-fold count places Abhijit between Uttara Ashadha and Shravana, so a moment in either may belong to the Abhijit portion. No data file on this site gives that portion a span, and this page prints no boundary for it, so whenever the Moon is in Uttara Ashadha or Shravana the chart gives two candidate names: the nakshatra’s own row, or the Abhijit row if the moment falls inside the Abhijit portion. The Abhijit row’s names, Musala (Sunday), Kana (Monday), Padma (Tuesday), Mudgara (Wednesday), Dhwanksha (Thursday), Kaladanda (Friday) and Chara (Saturday), are therefore never certain from a nakshatra name alone. Friday is a special case: its count starts at Uttara Ashadha itself, so a Friday in Uttara Ashadha is Ananda or Kaladanda, the first or the second name.

The Nadis Verse 26 Sets Aside

The next verse marks part of some of these yogas as varjya, to be set aside:

ध्वांक्षे वज्रे मुद्गरे चेषुनाड्यो वर्ज्या वेदाः पद्मलुम्बे गदेऽश्वाः
धूम्रे काणे मौसले भूर्द्वयं द्वे रक्षोमृत्यूत्पातकालाश्च सर्वे

Its counts are given in the number words of Sanskrit verse: ishu for five, vedah for four, ashvah for seven, bhu for one, dvayam for two and dve for two. The unit is the nadi, another name for the ghati. Read that way, the verse sets aside this many nadis in nine yogas:

• Five nadis: Dhwanksha, Vajra and Mudgara
• Four nadis: Padma and Lumba
• Seven nadis: Gada
• One nadi: Dhumra
• Two nadis: Kana and Musala

and the whole of Rakshasa, Mrityu, Utpata and Kaladanda (सर्वे, “all”; the verse calls the last of them simply kala). That accounts for thirteen of the 28 names; the verse says nothing of the other fifteen. It also does not say which nadis of a yoga are meant, whether from its start, its end or elsewhere, so this page gives a count and no window.

Verse 30’s Four Names Inside the Same Chart

A few verses on, the Muhurta Chintamani gives a separate weekday rule with only four names, Utpata, Mrityu, Kana and Siddhi, each assigned to one of four nakshatras counted from a new starting point (चतुर्भैः, “by fours”). Its first line names the seven starts, mostly by deity again:

द्वीशात्तोयाद्वासवात्पौष्णभाच्च ब्राह्मात्पुष्यादर्यमर्क्षाच्चतुर्भैः

Set beside the anandadi chart, the four-name rule turns out to be a slice of it. Counted in the 28-fold list, the four nakshatras from each weekday’s verse-30 start are exactly the cells where the anandadi chart already has its names 16 to 19, Utpata, Mrityu, Kana and Siddhi, on all seven weekdays:

Only one row depends on the Abhijit question. Monday’s run of four starts at Purva Ashadha and crosses the Uttara Ashadha to Shravana join; with Abhijit counted, its last two cells are Abhijit and Shravana, and with 27 nakshatras they would be Shravana and Dhanishta. Verse 30 does not say which it means. Every other weekday’s four nakshatras are the same either way.

How Often Each Name Falls at New Delhi Sunrise, 2026 and 2027

The site’s daily panchang records the nakshatra at sunrise in New Delhi for each of the 730 days from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027. Pairing each with its weekday gives the anandadi name at sunrise. On 58 of those mornings, about one in 13, the sunrise nakshatra is Uttara Ashadha (29) or Shravana (29), so the name is one of two and is left uncounted; the other 672 mornings have one name each.

The average is 24 mornings a name, with Shrivatsa the most frequent (33) and Siddhi the least (18). Part of the spread is structural. Seven names, Dhata, Shrivatsa, Mitra, Utpata, Shubha, Matanga and Pravardhamana, never sit in the Uttara Ashadha, Abhijit or Shravana rows of the chart, so all seven of their cells can produce a single-name morning, and none of them ever appears on a two-way day; each of the other 21 names has one of its seven cells in those rows. Those seven average 27.7 mornings against 22.8 for the rest, and the four commonest names in the table are all among them. The rest of the spread is not fixed by the chart: it comes from how the Moon’s month lines up with the week over these two years.

The count also shows how the name moves from one morning to the next. On 93% of the 645 pairs of consecutive single-name mornings (600 of them), the sunrise nakshatra moves on by exactly one; the weekday always moves on by one too, so the name steps three places back in the list, for instance from the fourth name to the first. The measured length of a Moon nakshatra, which varies around a day, explains why the remaining mornings repeat a nakshatra or skip one.

November 2026, Vaar by Vaar

The verse does not say whether a day takes the name from its sunrise nakshatra or changes name when the Moon changes nakshatra during the day, and the site’s other weekday-and-nakshatra pages print both readings for that reason, so this table gives both too: the name at sunrise, and each name that will follow within the vaar, with the IST time the new nakshatra begins. A vaar runs from one New Delhi sunrise to the next, as explained on the sunrise vaar page, so a nakshatra that begins after midnight still belongs to the previous weekday. The nakshatra times are the same across India; sunrise is New Delhi’s.

All but two of November’s 30 vaars will change name at least once, because the Moon will change nakshatra before the next sunrise, and 21 November will hold three nakshatras. Ananda will come in only one vaar, from sunrise on 22 November, a Sunday. The two-way names will all fall from 14 November to 16 November: for instance, the Moon will enter Uttara Ashadha at 20:24 on 14 November, a Saturday, and the name then will be Rakshasa or Chara, and on 15 November the sunrise name itself will be Amrita or Musala.

Other Schemes That Share the Word “Yoga”

Searches for the anandadi chart often turn up the “Tamil yoga” of a Tamil panchangam, with names such as Amirtha, Siddha and Marana. That is a different scheme, with its own names and rules, and it is not tabled here. Closer relatives, also built from a weekday and a nakshatra, have their own computed pages: Amrit Siddhi Yoga, with one nakshatra for each weekday, and Sarvartha Siddhi Yoga, with several. The weekday-and-tithi combinations are on the dagdha tithi page.

What This Page Does Not Give

Many searches ask what each anandadi yoga brings. The verses answer only that every name gives results “after its own name”, and a chart of counts cannot show whether a name has anything to do with how a day turns out, so the page offers no reading of any name, no list of good and bad days and no advice on when to begin something. It also gives no Abhijit span and no window for verse 26’s nadis, for the reasons set out above.

In Brief

• Source: Muhurta Chintamani, Shubhashubha Prakarana, verses 23 to 26, by Rama Daivajna
• Names: 28, from Ananda to Pravardhamana, each appearing seven times in the chart
• Starts: Sunday Ashwini, Monday Mrigashira, Tuesday Ashlesha, Wednesday Hasta, Thursday Anuradha, Friday Uttara Ashadha and Saturday Shatabhisha
• Abhijit: needed to make the starts four apart; Uttara Ashadha and Shravana days have two candidate names
• Verse 26: a nadi count for nine names, the whole of four more, nothing for fifteen
• New Delhi sunrises, 2026 and 2027: 730 days, 58 two-way; single-name counts from 18 (Siddhi) to 33 (Shrivatsa)

Related Pages

To use the chart for a given day, take the weekday and the Moon’s nakshatra from the daily panchang, which gives the sunrise nakshatra for every date of 2026 and 2027 computed for New Delhi. The guide to the 27 nakshatras sets out the usual list that the chart extends, and the lords of the tithis from the same chapter of the Muhurta Chintamani are on the tithi devta page.