Astrology

Vimshottari Dasha

Calculate the complete Vimshottari Dasha timeline for a birth chart. Returns Mahadasha, Antardasha, Pratyantar, Sookshma, and Prana periods up to 5 levels deep, with start and end dates for each. The starting planet is determined by the Moon's nakshatra at birth (Janma Nakshatra). The first Mahadasha row starts at birth and lasts the balance; its sub-periods are the remaining tail of the full Mahadasha, which began before birth, so the period running at birth is usually not the Mahadasha lord's own. That row also gives dasha_start_date and balance_years. Dates are DD/MM/YYYY. Interpretation text accompanies the currently active Mahadasha and Antardasha.

post/v1/astro/dasha

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asterwise.com
  • URL: https://api.asterwise.com/v1/astro/dasha
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

locationstring nullable

City name to resolve to lat/lon/tz automatically. Example: 'Mumbai' or 'New Delhi, India'. If provided, latitude, longitude and timezone are not required.

namestring

Person name associated with the birth record

datestring required

Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format

timestring nullable

Birth time in HH:MM 24-hour format. If omitted, sunrise chart is used as fallback.

latitudenumber nullable

Latitude. Required if location not provided.

longitudenumber nullable

Longitude. Required if location not provided.

timezonestring nullable

IANA timezone. Required if location not provided (unless utc_offset is given). For dates before the zone adopted a standard time, the birthplace's local mean time (longitude / 15 hours) is used.

utc_offsetstring nullable

Optional explicit UTC offset of the birth time, as ±HH:MM or ±HH:MM:SS (e.g. '+04:51:31' for Bombay mean time). Overrides the offset timezone would give. Use it when the birth record states the offset, or for historical local times the IANA database cannot represent.

ayanamsa'lahiri' | 'raman' | 'kp' | 'tropical'

Sidereal ayanamsa mode used in calculations

levelsinteger

Depth of dasha hierarchy to compute (1 to 5)

Example request

{
  "ayanamsa": "lahiri",
  "date": "1985-11-12",
  "latitude": 19.055,
  "location": "Mumbai",
  "longitude": 72.8692,
  "name": "Arjun Mehta",
  "time": "06:45",
  "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata"
}

Response

Vimshottari dasha periods with start and end ranges

successboolean

True if the request succeeded

messagestring

Human-readable status message

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "periods": [],
    "interpretation": {}
  }
}

Changes

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