Tajika annual chart (Varshaphal)

Tajika is a separate school from Parashari, with its own aspects, its own strength measure and its own timing, and this endpoint computes it as such rather than dressing a natal chart in annual clothes. The year is entered on the sidereal solar return, which matters more than it sounds: the tropical return drifts from it by the accumulated ayanamsa, twenty minutes a year, so for a person of thirty-six the two moments sit twelve hours apart and produce different ascendants. The muntha starts at the natal lagna and advances one sign per completed year, returning home every twelfth. Panchavargiya bala scores each graha out of twenty from its sign, its distance from debilitation, its Egyptian bound, its decan and its ninth-part. The year lord is picked from the lords of the muntha, of the natal lagna, of the annual lagna, of the annual lagna's triplicity and of the luminary of the sect.

curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/varshaphal \
  -H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "date": "1990-05-15",
  "time": "14:30:00",
  "timezoneOffset": 3,
  "latitude": 50.45,
  "longitude": 30.52,
  "year": 2026
}'

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "year": 2026,
    "yearsElapsed": 36,
    "pravesh": { "julianDay": 2461176.210016, "utc": "2026-05-15T17:02:25Z" },
    "isDayBirth": true,
    "ascendant": { "sign": 6, "signName": "Libra", "degreeInSign": 25.22 },
    "muntha": { "signName": "Leo", "degree": 26.25, "house": 11, "lordName": "Sun" },
    "varshesha": {
      "planetName": "Venus",
      "role": "varsha-lagnesha",
      "school": "hayanaratna",
      "reason": "aspects the annual ascendant by trine and is the strongest of the 3 that do (Vishwa 14.76)"
    },
    "varsheshaByStrength": { "planetName": "Venus", "school": "charak" }
  }
}

Use it for the annual reading that Jyotish clients expect on their birthday, and for any product that needs a year-scoped Vedic frame rather than a life-scoped one. It pairs with the dasha endpoints rather than competing with them: a dasha says which chapter of a life is open, the annual chart says what this particular year looks like inside it.

The year lord comes back twice on purpose. The classical rule in Balabhadra's Hayanaratna requires a candidate to aspect the annual ascendant before its strength is consulted at all; modern practice usually takes the strongest of the five outright. Those two can disagree, so the response carries both, names which reading produced each, and gives the reason the classical one chose what it did. Five sahams ship rather than the thirty-five often circulated: that longer list rests on a single secondary source and contains duplicate formulas and a sect disagreement, so the rest wait for a second source. The added-sign correction on a saham is tested on the ascendant, which is the point the rule names: four of the five sahams add the ascendant anyway, Mitra adds Venus, so Mitra is the only one the reading can move, and it moves by exactly one sign. Mudda dasha is not here for the same reason, and the docs say so rather than leaving it to be discovered.