Vedic

Shadbala: Kala (temporal)

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Kala Bala, sum of Nathonnatha (continuous time-from-midnight/noon), Paksha (continuous Moon-Sun elongation, Moon-doubled per BPHS), Tribhaga (3-fold split of day/night), Abda+Masa+Vara+Hora rulers, Ayana (declination-based, Sun-doubled, Mercury bidirectional). Yuddha (planetary war) deferred. Abda/Masa rulers require Vedic calendar lookup, currently zeroed (no contribution) to avoid double-counting Vara.

post/vedic/shadbala/kala

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.astroway.info/v1
  • URL: https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/shadbala/kala
  • Auth: API key in header X-Api-Key

Query parameters

fieldsstring

Comma-separated dotted paths, relative to data, to keep in the response. A path is applied to every element of an array, so planets.name means the name of each planet. Paths that match nothing come back in _fields_unmatched; a list where nothing matches at all is a 400, because an empty object would be a confident wrong answer.

precisioninteger

Round every non-integer number in the response to this many decimal places. Integers are left alone, because an id is not a measurement. Ecliptic longitudes ship with fourteen decimals by default; 2 is about a tenth of an arcminute.

Request body

datestring required
timestring required
timezoneOffsetnumber 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.

timezonestring

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.

latitudenumber required
longitudenumber required
houseSystem'P' | 'K' | 'R' | 'C' | 'E' | 'W' | 'B' | 'M' | 'O' | 'A' | 'T' | 'V' | 'D' | 'F' | 'G' | 'H' | 'I' | 'i' | 'L' | 'N' | 'Q' | 'S' | 'U' | 'X' | 'Y'
namestring
citystring
zodiacType'tropical' | 'sidereal'
ayanamsaIdnumber 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.

cosmogramboolean

Example request

{
  "timezone": "Europe/Kyiv"
}

Response

Successful calculation

okboolean

Example response

{
  "ok": true
}

Changes

  • ec98fcd88094Revision changes
    • warning

      changed the pattern of the request property from ^\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}$ to ^\d{2}:\d{2}(:\d{2})?$

  • b64222844186Revision changes
    • info

      added the new optional query request parameter fields

    • info

      added the new optional query request parameter precision