What this page will not do
Those are Rahu’s and Shani’s numbers, and they are the ones commercial numerology charges to “fix”, usually by selling a new spelling of your name. No classical Indian source grades the numbers good or bad, so neither does this page.
No source grades them · so none is citedA muhurta is chosen from the panchang — the tithi, the nakshatra and the determination window for the rite in question. Ganit computes that calendar properly and will not let a number override it.
The calendar decides · the number does notTry another spelling below if you like — you will try it somewhere, and better here. It gives a different total, because the letters are different. It moves no graha by one arcsecond, because the ephemeris does not read your passport.
Shown, and labelled for what it isWhere Ganit carries a remedy at all it states what a text prescribes and who says it, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it. There is no shop behind this page.
Sourced, never soldThere is no numerological compatibility here and there will not be. Guna Milan already computes thirty-six points with both all-or-nothing kootas and Manglik read from three separate reference points. A second, weaker verdict on the same couple would be worse than no verdict.
Deliberately absentWhere this comes from
Three claims sit on this page and only one of them is ancient. Ganit’s astronomy genuinely is old; running that together with this would be the easiest thing on the site to get wrong, so here is the split.
Naming a child from the quarter of the nakshatra the Moon stood in at birth is the namakarana custom, and the syllable tables are printed in panchangs today. It is the one item here with a lineage — and the one that needs the ephemeris, because a pada is a quarter of 13°20′.
Namakarana · the commonly printed pada tableIt is what practitioners use and what your family will recognise. How far back it goes is something we have not established and are not going to assert.
Attested in modern practice · earlier route unestablishedIt reaches Indian numerology through Cheiro — Louis Hamon — and Sepharial, published in London in the early 1900s. The name implies Babylon. We have found no text that carries it there, and we are not going to imply one.
Cheiro, Sepharial · early twentieth centurySanskrit does have a real classical letter-to-number system: katapayadi, used to encode astronomical constants inside verse so they could be memorised. It is the thing most often cited to make numerology sound Vedic. It is a different system doing a different job, and saying so costs this page nothing it was entitled to.
A different system · named rather than borrowedNo Sanskritist has read this page. The pada syllables are the ones commonly printed and have not been collated against manuscripts; where a popular claim has no classical basis we say so and cite nothing, which is the same rule Hasta Rekha follows.