Astrology

Pitru Dosha (Pitru Shapa)

Detects Pitru Dosha (Pitru Shapa, the father's curse) from the eleven combinations of BPHS 83.20–83.30, each read literally. present is true only when at least one combination forms; combinations_detail names the verse and the chart factors. Conjunction is the same sign; aspects are full Parashari graha drishti (Mars 4/7/8, Jupiter 5/7/9, Saturn 3/7/10, Rahu 7); malefics are the chart's natural malefics (Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu, a waning Moon, a Mercury joined by a malefic). House lords are whole sign from the lagna. General Sun and 9th-lord conditions are listed as indicators and never make the dosha present. BPHS gives no grading, so severity is null and combinations_count says how many combinations formed. Remedies are those of BPHS 83.31–83.32. The same rule fills the pitru_dosha bucket of /v1/astro/dosha.

post/v1/astro/pitra-dosha

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asterwise.com
  • URL: https://api.asterwise.com/v1/astro/pitra-dosha
  • 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 required

Birth time in HH:MM 24-hour format. Required: this endpoint has no sunrise 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

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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