Horoscope Details on a Biodata: What to Include
VivahAI Editorial · 10 August 2026 · 6 min read
For many families this section decides whether the rest of the page gets read. For others it is not on the biodata at all. Both are normal — but if you include it, the details need to be right, because everything downstream is computed from them.
The three that actually matter
An astrologer casting a chart needs exactly three inputs. Everything else on this list is derived from them.
- Date of birth — already elsewhere on your biodata, but repeat it here.
- Time of birth, as precisely as you can get it. To the minute if you have it.
- Place of birth — town or city, not just the state.
The derived fields
| Field | What it is | Who asks for it |
|---|---|---|
| Rashi (राशि) | Moon sign — the zodiac sign the Moon occupied at birth. Not the same as the sun sign in a newspaper column | Very widely |
| Nakshatra | The lunar mansion, one of 27, that the Moon was in. Often given with the pada (quarter) | Very widely, especially in the south |
| Gotra | Patrilineal clan lineage. Passed down the family, not calculated from the chart | Where families match on it |
| Manglik / Mangal dosha | A chart condition based on the placement of Mars | Commonly in the north and west |
| Charan / pada | The quarter of the nakshatra, sometimes used to pick the first letter of a name | Regionally |
Gotra is worth a note: it comes from your family, not from your birth chart, so ask an elder rather than looking it up. It is also the one field here that people most often get wrong by assuming it follows the surname.
How to put it on the page
Date of Birth: 14 March 1997 Time of Birth: 4:42 AM Place of Birth: Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu Rashi: Meena (Pisces) Nakshatra: Revati, 2nd pada Gotra: Bharadwaj Manglik: No (as per family astrologer)
That last parenthetical is doing real work. It says where the answer came from, which is the difference between a fact and a guess.
An honest note about automated matching
Plenty of websites will offer to compute your guna milan score — the 36-point ashtakoota match — from two dates of birth, instantly and free. Treat these with care, and be especially wary of anything that produces the score from a general-purpose AI rather than a real ephemeris.
The reason is mechanical. Every koota in that score depends on the two Moon positions, and the sidereal Moon longitude is an astronomical calculation — you either compute it from ephemeris data with a defined ayanamsa, or you do not know it. A language model asked to "estimate" it will produce a confident, well-formatted, differently-wrong answer each time you ask. The categories will sum neatly to 36 and the total will change on the next run.
We know because we shipped one and then tested it: identical birth details, three runs, scores of 19, 31 and 22 out of 36, with one component swinging between 0 and 7 across the three. Every run summed neatly to its stated total, so all three looked rigorous. We withdrew the feature rather than keep selling it — families make real decisions on that number, and a plausible wrong answer is worse than no answer at all.
So VivahAI puts your birth details on the biodata, correctly formatted, and stops there. For the matching itself, see an astrologer or use software built on a real ephemeris.
If your family doesn't use horoscopes
Leave the whole section out. An empty "Nakshatra: —" line is worse than no line, and there is no expectation that every biodata carries one. If you would rather not share a birth time for privacy reasons, that is also fine: give the date and place, and say the time is available on request.
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