Panchang: Tara Bala for a person

POST

/vedic/panchang/tara-bala

curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/panchang/tara-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, "janmaNakshatra": 4, "days": 1 }'

const res = await fetch('https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/panchang/tara-bala', {
  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,
    "janmaNakshatra": 4,
    "days": 1
  }),
});
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/tara-bala',
    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,
      'janmaNakshatra': 4,
      'days': 1
    },
)
result = r.json()
if not result['ok']:
    raise RuntimeError(result['error']['message'])
print(result['data'])

<?php
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/']);
$r = $client->post('vedic/panchang/tara-bala', [
    'headers' => ['X-Api-Key' => getenv('ASTROWAY_API_KEY')],
    'json' => [
        'date' => '2026-11-07',
        'timezoneOffset' => 5.5,
        'latitude' => 13.0827,
        'longitude' => 80.2707,
        'janmaNakshatra' => 4,
        'days' => 1,
    ],
]);
$result = json_decode($r->getBody(), true);
if (!$result['ok']) throw new \RuntimeException($result['error']['message']);
print_r($result['data']);

For each day (sunrise to next sunrise) and each nakshatra in it: the count from the birth star, the tara (Janma, Sampat, Vipat, Kshema, Pratyak, Sadhaka, Vadha, Mitra, Parama Mitra), its quality and favourable. Birth star from birth or janmaNakshatra; days 1 to 31.

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuth

Parameters

Query Parameters

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

Header Parameters

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

Request Body^required

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

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,
  "janmaNakshatra": 4,
  "days": 1
}

Responses

200

Successful calculation

application/json

object

boolean

data

object

method

string

nullable

janmaNakshatra

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

nakshatra

string

nullable

count

number

nullable

tara

number

nullable

name

string

nullable

meaning

string

nullable

quality

string

nullable

favourable

boolean

nullable

cycle

number

nullable

rule

string

nullable

Example

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "method": "tara-bala",
    "janmaNakshatra": "Rohini",
    "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": "2026-11-08T05:52:39+05:30",
            "nakshatra": "Chitra",
            "count": 11,
            "tara": 2,
            "name": "Sampat",
            "meaning": "wealth",
            "quality": "good",
            "favourable": true,
            "cycle": 2
          },
          {
            "from": "2026-11-08T05:52:39+05:30",
            "until": "2026-11-08T06:04:52+05:30",
            "nakshatra": "Swati",
            "count": 12,
            "tara": 3,
            "name": "Vipat",
            "meaning": "danger",
            "quality": "bad",
            "favourable": false,
            "cycle": 2
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "rule": "Count from the birth star to the day's star (1 to 27), fold into 9 taras: Janma, Sampat, Vipat, Kshema, Pratyak, Sadhaka, Vadha, Mitra, Parama Mitra. Sampat, Kshema, Sadhaka, Mitra and Parama Mitra are good; Vipat, Pratyak and Vadha bad; Janma mixed."
  }
}

400

Validation error

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"
      }
    ]
  }
}

401

Missing or invalid API key

application/json

Example

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INVALID_API_KEY",
    "message": "Invalid API key"
  }
}

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Authorizations

Parameters

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Header Parameters

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Request Body required

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Responses

200

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400

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401

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Request Body^required