Cast a KP horary (Prashna) chart from a number 1-249 - KP Horary API
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Cast a Krishnamurti Paddhati horary chart, also called Prashna, from a number between 1 and 249 given by the querent plus the moment and place the question is judged. NO BIRTH DETAILS ARE NEEDED, which is what makes horary the KP answer when birth time is unknown or unreliable. The number maps to one of the 249 KP sub divisions and sets the Ascendant; the twelve Placidus cusps follow from that Ascendant at the given latitude, and every planetary position comes from the real sky at the moment of the question. Returns the Ascendant with its sub lord, all twelve cusps with star lord and sub lord, the nine grahas placed against those cusps, the five ruling planets for validating the chart, and four-level significators for judging which houses each graha supports. KP horary API, Prashna kundali calculator, 249 horary number chart, Krishnamurti Paddhati horary, cusp sub lord question answering.
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | Yes | Date the question was taken up for judgment, YYYY-MM-DD. Not a birth date: a horary chart needs no birth details at all, which is the point of the method. | |
| 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 | Time the question was taken up for judgment, 24-hour HH:MM:SS. In KP practice this is the moment the astrologer receives and understands the question, not the moment the querent first thought of it. It sets every planetary position and all twelve cusps except the Ascendant. | |
| 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 for sidereal conversion. "kp-newcomb" uses the KP-Newcomb dynamic formula (most common for KP). "kp-old" uses the Krishnamurti original table. "lahiri" uses Lahiri/Chitrapaksha ayanamsa matching most traditional Vedic software. "raman" uses the B.V. Raman ayanamsa, about 1.45 degrees below Lahiri. "custom" allows providing your own value via ayanamsaValue. Defaults to "kp-newcomb". | kp-newcomb |
| latitude | Yes | Latitude where the question is judged, decimal degrees. The house cusps are Placidus and therefore latitude dependent, so this is the place of judgment, not the querent birthplace. | |
| nodeType | No | Lunar node convention. "mean" is the smoothed average node, which always moves retrograde; "true" is the osculating node, which tracks the real perturbed node, oscillates up to about 1.5 degrees either side of the mean on a 173-day cycle, and can briefly turn direct. Neither is more correct and they almost always fall in the same sign. Applies to the Rahu and Ketu positions. Mean is the traditional Vedic default and what printed panchangs use; the choice can move a KP sub-lord in narrow boundary cases, where a span can be as small as 0.5 degrees. Defaults to "mean". | mean |
| timezone | No | Timezone: IANA name (e.g. "Asia/Kolkata") OR decimal hours from UTC. Defaults to 5.5. | |
| longitude | Yes | Longitude where the question is judged, decimal degrees. | |
| horaryNumber | Yes | Horary number from 1 to 249, given by the querent while focused on their question. It maps to one of the 249 KP sub divisions of the zodiac, and that division sets the Ascendant of the chart. The querent should give the first number that comes to mind and use it once for that question; the astrologer never chooses it. Numbers outside 1 to 249 are rejected rather than wrapped, because a wrapped number would silently answer a different question. | |
| 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. |