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Panchang: Chandra Bala for a person

POST
/vedic/panchang/chandra-bala
request.sh
curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/panchang/chandra-bala \
-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, "janmaRashi": "Mithuna", "days": 1 }'

For each day and each Moon sign in it: the Moon’s house from the natal Moon sign, favourable (1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11) and chandrashtama (8). Natal Moon from birth or janmaRashi; days 1 to 31.

fields
string

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.

Example
planets.name,planets.longitude
precision
integer
<= 15

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.

Example
4
Idempotency-Key
string
>= 1 characters <= 255 characters /^[\x21-\x7E]+$/

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/.

Example
01HXY2A7ZM0ABCDEF
Media type application/json

A person (birth, or janmaNakshatra / janmaRashi), a first date, a number of days and a place. Each day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise.

object
birth
object
date required
string
/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/
time required
string
/^\d{2}:\d{2}(:\d{2})?$/
timezoneOffset

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.

number
0 nullable >= -14 <= 14
timezone

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.

string
latitude required
number
>= -90 <= 90
longitude required
number
>= -180 <= 180
houseSystem
string
default: P
Allowed values: 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
name
string
""
city
string
""
zodiacType
string
Allowed values: tropical sidereal
ayanamsaId
number
nullable
ayanamsa

Sidereal school by name. Lahiri when omitted. Equivalent to ayanamsaId; send either.

string
Allowed values: fagan-bradley lahiri de-luce raman krishnamurti kp yukteshwar jn-bhasin true-citra djwhal-khul
cosmogram
boolean
janmaRashi

Natal Moon sign, when birth is not sent: Mesha … Meena.

string
Allowed values: Mesha Vrishabha Mithuna Karka Simha Kanya Tula Vrishchika Dhanu Makara Kumbha Meena
janmaNakshatra

Birth star 1 (Ashwini) to 27 (Revati), when birth is not sent.

integer
>= 1 <= 27
date required

Civil date, YYYY-MM-DD. The day runs from its sunrise to the next sunrise.

string
/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/
timezoneOffset

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.

number
0 nullable >= -14 <= 14
timezone

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.

string
latitude required
number
>= -90 <= 90
longitude required
number
>= -180 <= 180
ayanamsaId
number
nullable
ayanamsa

Sidereal school by name. Lahiri when omitted. Equivalent to ayanamsaId; send either.

string
Allowed values: fagan-bradley lahiri de-luce raman krishnamurti kp yukteshwar jn-bhasin true-citra djwhal-khul
days

Number of days from date, 1 to 31. Default 1.

integer
default: 1 >= 1 <= 31
key additional
nullable
Example
{
"date": "2026-11-07",
"timezoneOffset": 5.5,
"latitude": 13.0827,
"longitude": 80.2707,
"janmaRashi": "Mithuna",
"days": 1
}

Successful calculation

Media type application/json
object
ok
boolean
data
object
method
string
nullable
janmaRashi
string
nullable
days
Array<object>
nullable
object
date
string
nullable
sunrise
string
nullable
nextSunrise
string
nullable
periods
Array<object>
nullable
object
from
string
nullable
until
string
nullable
moonSign
string
nullable
house
number
nullable
favourable
boolean
nullable
chandrashtama
boolean
nullable
rule
string
nullable
Example
{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"method": "chandra-bala",
"janmaRashi": "Mithuna",
"days": [
{
"date": "2026-11-07",
"sunrise": "2026-11-07T06:04:31+05:30",
"nextSunrise": "2026-11-08T06:04:52+05:30",
"periods": [
{
"from": "2026-11-07T06:04:31+05:30",
"until": "2026-11-07T17:15:20+05:30",
"moonSign": "Kanya",
"house": 4,
"favourable": false,
"chandrashtama": false
},
{
"from": "2026-11-07T17:15:20+05:30",
"until": "2026-11-08T06:04:52+05:30",
"moonSign": "Tula",
"house": 5,
"favourable": false,
"chandrashtama": false
}
]
}
],
"rule": "The Moon's house counted from the natal Moon sign: 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 good, the rest not; 8 is Chandrashtama. Some texts also accept 2, 5 and 9 in Shukla Paksha; not applied here."
}
}

Validation error

Media type application/json
Example
{
"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

Media type application/json
Example
{
"ok": false,
"error": {
"code": "INVALID_API_KEY",
"message": "Invalid API key"
}
}