Panchang: Pancha Pakshi (five birds)
curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/panchang/pancha-pakshi \ -H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "date": "2026-11-07", "timezoneOffset": 5.5, "latitude": 13.0827, "longitude": 80.2707, "bird": "peacock" }'const res = await fetch('https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/panchang/pancha-pakshi', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.ASTROWAY_API_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, body: JSON.stringify({ "date": "2026-11-07", "timezoneOffset": 5.5, "latitude": 13.0827, "longitude": 80.2707, "bird": "peacock" }),});const { ok, data, error } = await res.json();if (!ok) throw new Error(error.message);console.log(data);import os, requests
r = requests.post( 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/panchang/pancha-pakshi', headers={'X-Api-Key': os.environ['ASTROWAY_API_KEY'], 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, json={ 'date': "2026-11-07", 'timezoneOffset': 5.5, 'latitude': 13.0827, 'longitude': 80.2707, 'bird': "peacock" },)result = r.json()if not result['ok']: raise RuntimeError(result['error']['message'])print(result['data'])<?phpuse GuzzleHttp\Client;
$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/']);$r = $client->post('vedic/panchang/pancha-pakshi', [ 'headers' => ['X-Api-Key' => getenv('ASTROWAY_API_KEY')], 'json' => [ 'date' => '2026-11-07', 'timezoneOffset' => 5.5, 'latitude' => 13.0827, 'longitude' => 80.2707, 'bird' => 'peacock', ],]);$result = json_decode($r->getBody(), true);if (!$result['ok']) throw new \RuntimeException($result['error']['message']);print_r($result['data']);Tamil five-bird system for a date and place: the paksha at sunrise, five day and five night yamas, the activity (ruling, eating, walking, sleeping, dying) of every bird in each, and, with a person (bird, birth, or janmaNakshatra + birthPaksha), that bird’s activity and the five sub-periods of each yama.
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Section titled “Query Parameters ”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.
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planets.name,planets.longitudeRound 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.
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Section titled “Header Parameters ”Unique per logical operation, kept across retries. For 24 hours from the first request, a repeat with the same key, method, path, body and query string returns the stored response with Idempotent-Replayed: true and costs 0 credits. The same key with a different body or query string is a 409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED; a repeat while the first is still running is a 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS. Only 2xx responses are kept. See /idempotency/.
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01HXY2A7ZM0ABCDEFRequest Body required
Section titled “Request Body required ”A date and a place, and optionally the person (birth, janmaNakshatra + birthPaksha, or bird). Without a person every bird’s activity per yama is returned, without sub-periods.
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Civil date, YYYY-MM-DD. The day runs from its sunrise to the next sunrise.
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.
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.
Sidereal school by name. Lahiri when omitted. Equivalent to ayanamsaId; send either.
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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.
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.
Sidereal school by name. Lahiri when omitted. Equivalent to ayanamsaId; send either.
Birth star 1 to 27, with birthPaksha, when birth is not sent.
Paksha at birth, with janmaNakshatra.
The birth bird directly; wins over birth and janmaNakshatra. Use it where your tradition groups the stars differently.
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{ "date": "2026-11-07", "timezoneOffset": 5.5, "latitude": 13.0827, "longitude": 80.2707, "bird": "peacock"}Responses
Section titled “ Responses ”Successful calculation
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{ "ok": true, "data": { "method": "pancha-pakshi", "date": "2026-11-07", "weekday": 6, "paksha": "krishna", "sunrise": "2026-11-07T06:04:31+05:30", "sunset": "2026-11-07T17:40:31+05:30", "bird": { "key": "peacock", "tamil": "Mayil", "sanskrit": "Mayura", "from": "input" }, "activities": { "ruling": { "tamil": "Arasu", "strength": 5, "quality": "very good" }, "eating": { "tamil": "Oon", "strength": 4, "quality": "good" }, "walking": { "tamil": "Nadai", "strength": 3, "quality": "average" }, "sleeping": { "tamil": "Thuyil", "strength": 2, "quality": "bad" }, "dying": { "tamil": "Saavu", "strength": 1, "quality": "very bad" } }, "yamas": [ { "index": 1, "part": "day", "start": "2026-11-07T06:04:31+05:30", "end": "2026-11-07T08:23:43+05:30", "activities": { "vulture": "sleeping", "cock": "ruling", "owl": "walking", "peacock": "eating", "crow": "dying" }, "activity": "eating", "subPeriods": [ { "bird": "peacock", "activity": "eating", "start": "2026-11-07T06:04:31+05:30", "end": "2026-11-07T06:50:55+05:30" }, { "bird": "crow", "activity": "dying", "start": "2026-11-07T06:50:55+05:30", "end": "2026-11-07T07:19:55+05:30" }, { "bird": "vulture", "activity": "sleeping", "start": "2026-11-07T07:19:55+05:30", "end": "2026-11-07T07:31:31+05:30" }, { "bird": "cock", "activity": "ruling", "start": "2026-11-07T07:31:31+05:30", "end": "2026-11-07T07:48:55+05:30" }, { "bird": "owl", "activity": "walking", "start": "2026-11-07T07:48:55+05:30", "end": "2026-11-07T08:23:43+05:30" } ] } ], "source": "Yama tables and sub-period lengths as drikpanchang.com publishes them (it names no edition of the Pancha Pakshi Shastra). Birth bird: the 5-6-5-5-6 star grouping of the Tamil manuals, reversed in Krishna Paksha; other groupings are in print, so send bird to use yours.", "basis": "manual" }}Validation error
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{ "ok": false, "error": { "code": "INVALID_INPUT", "message": "Validation failed: date: Date must be YYYY-MM-DD", "details": [ { "path": "date", "message": "Date must be YYYY-MM-DD" } ] }}Missing or invalid API key
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{ "ok": false, "error": { "code": "INVALID_API_KEY", "message": "Invalid API key" }}