Get all 9 Mahadasha periods (120-year cycle)
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Returns the complete Vimshottari dasha cycle from birth, all 9 Mahadasha periods across the full 120 year span. Each period carries its ruling graha, exact start and end dates, and the houses it signifies, with the birth dasha balance and Moon nakshatra that anchor the sequence. This is the top level timeline a Vedic astrology report opens with, and the entry point for drilling into Antardasha and finer sub periods.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | Yes | Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Date determines planetary positions and nakshatra calculations for Vedic kundli (janam patri). Accurate birth date is essential for dashas, yoga calculations, and divisional charts (vargas). | |
| lang | No | Response language (BCP 47). Supported: en, tr, de, es, hi, pt, fr, ru, zh-Hans, zh-Hant. Defaults to en. Coverage varies by domain, and a field with no translation in the requested language returns English. | en |
| time | Yes | Birth time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format. Time is CRITICAL for Lagna (Ascendant) calculation and house divisions. It changes every two hours roughly. Even minutes matter for accurate nakshatra pada and divisional chart (D9, D10) calculations. Without exact time, Lagna and house-based predictions will be incorrect. | |
| focus | No | Which signification vocabulary the houseThemes map returns. "general" gives the classical bhava significations (self, wealth, siblings, home, and so on). "finance" gives the money reading of the same twelve bhavas, so house 2 returns income and savings, 5 speculation and risk appetite, 8 sudden money and leverage, 11 gains and profits, and 12 expenses and capital outflow. Use "finance" for wealth, income, business and market timing questions in Krishnamurti Paddhati, where the significator house groups 2, 6, 10, 11 for earned income and 5, 8, 11 for speculation are read against a running dasha. Defaults to "general". | general |
| compact | No | Set true for the same data in a compact shape: arrays of same-shaped objects arrive columnar as {"__cols":[names],"__rows":[[values]]}. Lossless, typically 40 to 52 percent fewer tokens. | |
| ayanamsa | No | Ayanamsa system used to place the birth Moon in its nakshatra, which sets every dasha start and end date. "lahiri" uses Lahiri/Chitrapaksha, the traditional Vedic standard, and is the default. "kp-newcomb" uses the KP-Newcomb dynamic formula, matching Krishnamurti Paddhati software. "kp-old" uses the Krishnamurti original table from KP Reader-1. "raman" uses the B.V. Raman ayanamsa, the second frame traditional Indian software commonly offers beside Lahiri. "custom" takes your own value in degrees via ayanamsaValue, for reconciling exactly against a specific reference program. Switching frames shifts every dasha boundary by weeks, so pick the one your reference software uses. | lahiri |
| latitude | Yes | Birth location latitude in decimal degrees. Location determines local sidereal time for Lagna calculation and affects bhava (house) cusps. Example: Delhi 28.6139, Mumbai 19.0760, Kathmandu 27.7172. | |
| nodeType | No | Lunar node type for Rahu and Ketu, used ONLY when "significators" is true. Dasha dates themselves come from the Moon and never move with this field. "mean" uses the smooth mean node (traditional default). "true" uses the osculating node, which swings up to 1.5 degrees either side of mean over a 173-day cycle and can therefore change which house or star a node falls in. Defaults to "mean". | mean |
| timezone | No | Timezone: an IANA name (e.g. "America/New_York", "Europe/London", or `cities[0].timezone` from /location/search) or decimal hours from UTC (e.g. -5 for EST, 5.5 for IST). An IANA name is resolved to the offset in force at the given date and time. Defaults to 5.5. | |
| longitude | Yes | Birth location longitude in decimal degrees. Affects local time calculations and ayanamsha adjustments. Example: Delhi 77.2090, Mumbai 72.8777, Kathmandu 85.3240. | |
| ayanamsaValue | No | Custom ayanamsa value in degrees. When provided, overrides the computed ayanamsa from the selected type. Use for testing with specific ayanamsa values or matching a particular reference source. | |
| significators | No | Set true to attach the KP significators of each period lord: its star lord, sub lord, occupied house, the houses it signifies at levels L1 to L4, and a strength grade. Off by default, so responses stay exactly as they are for clients that only need dates. Requires the birth latitude and longitude, since significators are read off a Placidus house chart, and uses the same ayanamsa frame selected above. The latitude must lie below 66.56 degrees north or south, inside the polar circles: KP cusps are Placidus, which has no solution beyond them, so a polar latitude returns 400. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| focus | No | ||
| ayanamsa | Yes | ||
| mahadashas | Yes | ||
| totalYears | Yes | ||
| houseThemes | No | ||
| ayanamsaType | Yes | ||
| moonLongitude | Yes | ||
| moonNakshatra | Yes | ||
| nakshatraLord | Yes | ||
| nakshatraName | Yes | ||
| birthDashaBalance | Yes |