Manglik Dosha: understand the influence of Mars in your birth chart

What is Manglik Dosha?

Also called Mangal Dosha, Kuja Dosha, Bhom Dosha or Angarakha Dosha, it occurs when Mars sits in specific houses of your birth chart houses linked to marriage, domestic life and the spouse. It's one factor among many considered in Vedic matchmaking.

Which Houses Trigger It?

Mars in any of these houses from your Lagna, Moon or Venus:

1st HouseMild

2nd HouseMild

4th HouseMild

7th HouseStrong

8th HouseStrong

12th HouseMild

Did You Know?

Popular belief holds that Manglik effects soften after age 28, and that two Manglik partners marrying each other cancel the dosha out between them though neither idea appears in the classical texts, which base cancellation on planetary placement alone.

Date of Birth

Time of Birth

City of Birth

An accurate birth time matters here your Ascendant shifts roughly every two hours.