Lal Kitab

Lal Kitab Chart

Computes a Lal Kitab chart following the 1952 Lal Kitab: houses are counted from the Vedic lagna (whole sign) and the lagna house is read as house 1 (Aries). Returns the ascendant and all 9 planets with their Lal Kitab house, pakka ghar, uchcha (exalted) and neecha (debilitated) flags, fixed or doubtful effect and malefic indications, the 12 houses, and the 9 Lal Kitab debts (rin) with their remedies. Ayanamsa: lahiri (default), raman or kp; tropical is rejected because Lal Kitab starts from the sidereal Indian chart. Without a birth time a sunrise chart is used and birth_time_provided is false; houses are then approximate.

post/v1/astro/lal-kitab/chart

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asterwise.com
  • URL: https://api.asterwise.com/v1/astro/lal-kitab/chart
  • 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'

Sidereal ayanamsa used to cast the birth chart: lahiri (default), raman or kp. Tropical is rejected: Lal Kitab starts from the sidereal Indian chart.

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

Successful Response

successboolean

True if the request succeeded

messagestring

Human-readable status message

Changes

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