{"name":"Divine Nakshatra API","version":"v1","free":"Free to call, no key, no limit set by us; every file is static and served from the edge.","rights":{"notice":"Copyright (c) 2026 Divyanshu Singh Chouhan. All rights reserved.","free":"Free for everyone: no fee, no key, no sign-up, no advertising, and nothing asked in return, not money, not donations, not recognition. Offered in service of भगवान् वासुदेव श्रीकृष्ण (Bhagavan Vasudeva Shri Krishna).","use":"Calling these addresses and using what they return in your own work, for yourself or the people you serve, is free.","reserved":"Free is not copyable: the files, the engine that makes them and this site belong to Divyanshu Singh Chouhan. Without his written permission no one may copy or mirror them in bulk, host or sell them, present them as their own, or use them to train or evaluate a machine-learning system (the licence of divinenakshatra.com)."},"site":"https://divinenakshatra.com/","openapi":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/openapi.json","built":{"date":"2026-10-20","seconds":218,"threads":4},"frame":"Sidereal longitudes in the app's frame: the J2000 star frame less Lahiri's constant (IAE 1956), the frame of the sky the app draws. The Sun, the Moon and the planets from the app's astronomy (astronomy-engine, VSOP87 and the Moon's series); Rahu as the mean node.","numbering":"Every number is 1-based as almanacs count: tithi 1-30 (15 Purnima, 30 Amavasya), Nakshatra 1-27, yoga 1-27, karana 1-60 (the half-tithis of the month), rashi 1-12 from Mesha, masa 1-12 from Chaitra (amanta), vara 1-7 from Ravivara.","files":{"places":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/places.json","what":"Every place: id, name, region, country, country code, latitude, longitude (degrees, east positive) and IANA zone. The panchang address is /v1/panchang/{id}/{year}.json."},"zones":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/zones.json","what":"Each zone's offsets: rows [UTC second since 1970, offset in seconds from then on], 1800 to 2100, from the IANA database."},"nakshatras":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/nakshatras.json","what":"The 27: span, rashis, padas with their navamsha, yogatara (J2000), Vimshottari lord, devata, gana, nadi, varna, yoni, rajju."},"milan":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/milan.json","what":"Ashtakoota by the Moon: the band in 38 parts (a Nakshatra cut where its rashi or the Vashya of the text changes), every bride's part against every groom's, total and each koota; null where the source table gives no value."},"events":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/events/{year}.json","years":[1900,2100],"what":"In UTC to the second: the instant each tithi, Nakshatra, yoga and karana begins, with its number; the Moon's rashi entries; the sankrantis; the entries of Mangala, Budha, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Rahu and Ketu with 1 where vakri; the masas from new Moon to new Moon; the eclipses with their peak.","example":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/events/2026.json"},"ephemeris":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/ephemeris/{year}.json","years":[1900,2100],"what":"The nine grahas every 6 hours from 00:00 UTC on 1 January: lon[step][graha] in degrees, speed[step][graha] in degrees a day (negative is vakri), geocentric.","example":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/ephemeris/2026.json"},"panchang":{"url":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/panchang/{place id}/{year}.json","years":[2026,2027],"fields":["date","vara","sunrise","sunset","tithi","nakshatra","yoga","karana","chandra_rashi","surya_rashi","sankranti","masa","rahu_kalam","yamaganda","gulika","abhijit","brahma_muhurta"],"what":"One row a civil date at the place: the Vedic day that begins at that date's sunrise. Times in the place's clock as HH:MM from the row's midnight (an hour past 24 is a later day). tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and chandra_rashi are lists of [number, end]: the one running at sunrise, then each that begins before the next sunrise. surya_rashi is the Sun's rashi at sunrise; sankranti is [the rashi entered, the time] when the Sun enters it before the next sunrise, else null. masa is [number, 1 if adhika]. The windows are [start, end]; abhijit has a third value, 1 on Budhavara, when the texts except it. A date with no sunrise (inside a polar circle) has nulls; a day whose Sun does not set (the midnight Sun beginning) has no sunset and no windows, and its limbs at sunrise only.","example":"https://api.divinenakshatra.com/v1/panchang/in/jodhpur-rajasthan/2026.json"}},"names":{"tithi":["Shukla Pratipada","Shukla Dwitiya","Shukla Tritiya","Shukla Chaturthi","Shukla Panchami","Shukla Shashthi","Shukla Saptami","Shukla Ashtami","Shukla Navami","Shukla Dashami","Shukla Ekadashi","Shukla Dwadashi","Shukla Trayodashi","Shukla Chaturdashi","Purnima","Krishna Pratipada","Krishna Dwitiya","Krishna Tritiya","Krishna Chaturthi","Krishna Panchami","Krishna Shashthi","Krishna Saptami","Krishna Ashtami","Krishna Navami","Krishna Dashami","Krishna Ekadashi","Krishna Dwadashi","Krishna Trayodashi","Krishna Chaturdashi","Amavasya"],"nakshatra":["Ashwini","Bharani","Krittika","Rohini","Mrigashira","Ardra","Punarvasu","Pushya","Ashlesha","Magha","Purva Phalguni","Uttara Phalguni","Hasta","Chitra","Swati","Vishakha","Anuradha","Jyeshtha","Mula","Purva Ashadha","Uttara Ashadha","Shravana","Dhanishta","Shatabhisha","Purva Bhadrapada","Uttara Bhadrapada","Revati"],"nakshatra_sanskrit":["अश्विनी","भरणी","कृत्तिका","रोहिणी","मृगशीर्ष","आर्द्रा","पुनर्वसु","पुष्य","आश्लेषा","मघा","पूर्वफल्गुनी","उत्तरफल्गुनी","हस्त","चित्रा","स्वाति","विशाखा","अनुराधा","ज्येष्ठा","मूल","पूर्वाषाढा","उत्तराषाढा","श्रवण","धनिष्ठा","शतभिषा","पूर्वभाद्रपदा","उत्तरभाद्रपदा","रेवती"],"yoga":["Vishkumbha","Priti","Ayushman","Saubhagya","Shobhana","Atiganda","Sukarma","Dhriti","Shula","Ganda","Vriddhi","Dhruva","Vyaghata","Harshana","Vajra","Siddhi","Vyatipata","Variyan","Parigha","Shiva","Siddha","Sadhya","Shubha","Shukla","Brahma","Indra","Vaidhriti"],"karana":["Kinstughna","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Shakuni","Chatushpada","Naga"],"karana_kinds":["Kinstughna","Bava","Balava","Kaulava","Taitila","Gara","Vanija","Vishti","Shakuni","Chatushpada","Naga"],"rashi":["Mesha","Vrishabha","Mithuna","Karka","Simha","Kanya","Tula","Vrischika","Dhanu","Makara","Kumbha","Meena"],"rashi_sanskrit":["मेष","वृषभ","मिथुन","कर्क","सिंह","कन्या","तुला","वृश्चिक","धनु","मकर","कुम्भ","मीन"],"rashi_english":["Aries","Taurus","Gemini","Cancer","Leo","Virgo","Libra","Scorpio","Sagittarius","Capricorn","Aquarius","Pisces"],"masa":["Chaitra","Vaishakha","Jyeshtha","Ashadha","Shravana","Bhadrapada","Ashvina","Kartika","Margashirsha","Pausha","Magha","Phalguna"],"vara":["Ravivara","Somavara","Mangalavara","Budhavara","Guruvara","Shukravara","Shanivara"]},"method":{"sunrise":"The upper limb of the Sun on the horizon with refraction (34'), as the app's TODAY; found to about a tenth of a second.","limbs":"Tithi from the Moon's elongation from the Sun in 12° steps, karana in 6°, Nakshatra from the Moon in 13°20′, yoga from the sum of the longitudes in 13°20′; each change found to a second. The app's tithi ends agree with Swiss Ephemeris within 9 seconds on 60 days from 1950 to 2050.","vara":"The weekday of the sunrise at the place, by its own clock.","windows":"Rahu kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika are eighths of the daytime from sunrise to sunset, by the vara; Abhijit is the eighth of fifteen parts of the daytime; Brahma muhurta is the fourteenth of fifteen parts of the night before the sunrise.","masa":"Amanta: from new Moon to new Moon, named by the sankranti that falls in it (the Calendar Reform Committee's rule, 1955); a month with none is adhika.","eclipses":"Lunar eclipses by Danjon's shadow, solar eclipses from the Moon's shadow on the Earth; each checked against NASA's canon for its year in the app's tests."},"not_here":"Predictions and meanings are not given: only what is computed. A birth chart for any moment and place needs the computation itself; it is not a file."}