---
title: "Prashna: yes/no indicators"
method: POST
path: "/vedic/prashna/analysis"
tags: ["Vedic"]
---

# Prashna: yes/no indicators

`POST /vedic/prashna/analysis`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.astroway.info/v1`
- URL: `https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/prashna/analysis`
- Auth: API key in header `X-Api-Key`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/astroway/apis/astroway-calculation-api/docs/vedic/prashna/analysis/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Prasna Tantra indicators for one `category` (relationship, career, travel, lost-item, litigation, general; health is refused): the house of the question and its lord, the ascendant, the Lagna lord and the Moon, Tajika aspects, Ithasala, Easarapha and Kamboola between the Lagna lord, the significator and the Moon, and the category's own stanzas. Each indicator has its rule, what the chart shows, whether it fired and its source; then an equal-weight tally, the II.5-8 success grade and the II.10-12 timing. No prediction text.

## Query parameters

- `fields` string
- `precision` integer

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- PrashnaAnalysisInput: The Prashna chart input plus the category of the question.
  - `date` string, required: Date of the question, YYYY-MM-DD, local.
  - `time` string, required: Time of the question, HH:mm:ss, local.
  - `timezoneOffset` number, nullable: Hours from UTC at the given moment, not minutes. Fractional zones are hours too: 5.5 for India, 5.75 for Nepal, -3.5 for Newfoundland. Defaults to 0, meaning UTC. Ignored when timezone is sent.
  - `timezone` string: IANA zone name such as Europe/Kyiv, or auto to look the zone up from latitude and longitude. The server takes the offset that zone kept at this local date and time, summer time included, and uses it in place of timezoneOffset. A clock time that happened twice takes the first occurrence; one skipped when clocks went forward takes the offset from before the change. Abbreviations such as EST are refused. Before 1970 the tz database is not reliable for every place, so send timezoneOffset when the local clock is known.
  - `latitude` number, required
  - `longitude` number, required
  - `ayanamsaId` number, nullable
  - `ayanamsa` 'fagan-bradley' | 'lahiri' | 'de-luce' | 'raman' | 'krishnamurti' | 'kp' | 'yukteshwar' | 'jn-bhasin' | 'true-citra' | 'djwhal-khul': Sidereal school by name. Lahiri when omitted. Equivalent to ayanamsaId; send either.
  - `arudhaSign` integer: Arudha: the sign (1 Aries .. 12 Pisces) of the direction the querent faces or the square of the chakra the querent touches (Prasna Marga II.7-11). Omit it and the Udaya Lagna stands in for it (IX.30-31).
  - `number` integer: A number 1-108 from the querent: its navamsa fixes the Arudha sign. Send arudhaSign or number, not both. KP's 1-249 number is /v1/vedic/kp/horary.
  - `sphutaGulika` 'mandi' | 'gulika': Which point enters Trisphuta. mandi (default): the Prasna Marga author takes Gulika by the Mandi ghatika method (translator's note to V.14-16). gulika: the end of Saturn's eighth part.
  - `category` 'relationship' | 'career' | 'travel' | 'lost-item' | 'litigation' | 'general', required: The subject of the question: relationship, career, travel, lost-item, litigation, general. It picks the house of the question and its lord (the significator). Health is not offered.

## Response `200`

Successful calculation

- object
  - `ok` boolean
  - `data` object
    - `method` string, nullable
    - `category` string, nullable
    - `lagna` object, nullable
      - `sign` string, nullable
      - `lord` string, nullable
    - `houseOfQuestion` object, nullable
      - `house` number, nullable
      - `sign` string, nullable
      - `why` string, nullable
      - `source` string, nullable
    - `significator` object, nullable
      - `graha` number, nullable
      - `name` string, nullable
      - `house` number, nullable
      - `sameAsLagnaLord` boolean, nullable
    - `moon` object, nullable
      - `waxing` boolean, nullable
      - `house` number, nullable
      - `afflicted` boolean, nullable
    - `indicators` object[], nullable
      - `id` string, nullable
      - `rule` string, nullable
      - `effect` string, nullable
      - `fired` boolean, nullable
      - `observed` string, nullable
      - `source` string, nullable
    - `tally` object, nullable
      - `favourable` number, nullable
      - `unfavourable` number, nullable
      - `checked` number, nullable
      - `leaning` string, nullable
      - `weights` string, nullable
      - `mixedReading` string, nullable
    - `successGrade` object, nullable
      - `percent` number, nullable
      - `why` string, nullable
      - `source` string, nullable
    - `timing` object, nullable
      - `value` string, nullable
      - `source` string, nullable
    - `chart` object, nullable
      - `udayaLagna` object, nullable
        - `longitude` number, nullable
        - `sign` number, nullable
        - `signName` string, nullable
        - `degree` number, nullable
        - `nakshatra` number, nullable
        - `nakshatraName` string, nullable
        - `lord` number, nullable
        - `lordName` string, nullable
        - `sirshodaya` boolean, nullable
    - `sources` object, nullable
      - `ptIthasala` object, nullable
        - `text` string, nullable
        - `ref` string, nullable
        - `status` string, nullable
    - `notes` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `400`: Validation error
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key

## Changes

- **2026-11-07** `bf266b2e6703`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/astroway/apis/astroway-calculation-api/changes/vedic/prashna/analysis/post.md)

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