How to choose a car number as per numerology
Choosing a car number by numerology is a small piece of arithmetic. You need two numbers: your own, called the mulank, and the plate's total. Then you look up whether the two get along in the traditional friendship table. This guide walks through the steps with the working shown, so you can check any plate yourself or let the calculator do it.
It is a number game with a long tradition behind it, not advice about safety, money or luck on the road. Use it the way you would use a horoscope column: for fun, and as a tiebreaker.
Step 1: Find your mulank
Your mulank (birth number, also called the psychic number) comes from the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit from 1 to 9.
- Born on the 7th: mulank 7.
- Born on the 14th: 1 + 4 = 5, so mulank 5.
- Born on the 29th: 2 + 9 = 11, then 1 + 1 = 2, so mulank 2.
Only the day counts here. The month and year are not used for the mulank. If you were born on the 9th, 18th or 27th, your mulank is 9 in every case.
The planet attached to each number matters for the table in step 3: 1 Sun, 2 Moon, 3 Jupiter, 4 Rahu, 5 Mercury, 6 Venus, 7 Ketu, 8 Saturn, 9 Mars. Each number has its own page, for example mulank 1 or mulank 8.
Step 2: Add up the plate
Take the digits of the registration number and add them. By the common convention, letters are ignored and so is a leading zero, which adds nothing anyway. Keep adding until one digit is left.
Take the plate MH12AB1222. The digits are 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2.
1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10, then 1 + 0 = 1. The plate total is 1.
Another: DL8SST1222. The digits are 8, 1, 2, 2, 2, which sum to 15, then 1 + 5 = 6. The plate total is 6.
Some people also count the letters using a letter-value table. That changes the answer, which is why the convention matters; see digits only or letters too. Whichever you use, use it for every plate you compare.
Step 3: Read the friendship table
Each mulank has friends, neutrals and enemies among the other numbers. The table this site uses is the traditional one from the Cheiro and Sepharial lineage. A few rows:
- Mulank 1: friends 1, 2, 3, 5, 9; neutral 4, 6, 7; clash with 8.
- Mulank 5: friends 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9; neutral 7, 8; no clashes.
- Mulank 8: friends 6, 7, 8; neutral 5, 9; clash with 1, 2, 3, 4.
So a mulank 1 owner with the plate MH12AB1222 (total 1) has a friend match. A mulank 8 owner with the same plate has a clash.
You can read what each plate total is said to stand for on its own page, such as plate total 1 or plate total 6.
Step 4: Compare two or three plates
At the RTO fancy-number stage you usually have a short list, not a free choice. Work out the total for each and sort them into friend, neutral or clash.
- Drop every clash.
- Among friends, prefer the one that is also your own number. A mulank 6 owner on a total-6 plate is the cleanest match.
- If only neutrals remain, pick on other grounds: price, how easy the number is to remember, whether the last digits look tidy.
If you drive a car that already has a plate, you can run the same check after delivery. The answer will not change the registration, so treat it as information only.
Common slips
- Stopping at two digits. A sum of 10 or 19 is not a total yet. Keep reducing until one digit from 1 to 9 is left.
- Using the wrong day. The mulank is the day of birth, not the full date. The full date gives a different number, the destiny number or bhagyank, which is a separate calculation.
- Mixing conventions. If one plate is scored on digits only and another with letters, the comparison means nothing.
- Treating a 9 or 0 digit oddly. A 9 adds as 9. A 0 adds nothing. A plate of 0009 totals 9.
Where the numbers come from
The friendship table is a convention, not a measurement. Different books draw the lines slightly differently, especially for 4 and 8. This site follows one stated table so results are repeatable, and each result page shows its trail so you can disagree with it knowingly.
For the number most buyers ask about first, see which number is lucky for a car. For fancy-number booking, see how to book a fancy number online on Parivahan.