Previous value: -"The date to mark the active mahadasha and antardasha for, ISO YYYY-MM-DD. SEND TODAY'S DATE for \"which dasha am I in now\" — this tool never reads the clock itself, so without this it answers about the period running at birth. Send a past date to ask which period was running then."New value: +"Date to mark the active mahadasha and antardasha for. Example: today's date for \"which dasha am I in now\"."

Previous value: -"Birth date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD, zero-padded, between 1800-01-01 and 2200-12-31. Example: \"1977-10-19\". \"19/10/1977\" is refused rather than interpreted, because guessing which half is the month produces a different timeline."New value: +"Birth date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD, 1800-2200. Example: \"1977-10-19\". \"19/10/1977\" is refused, not guessed."

Previous value: -"Birth latitude in decimal degrees as a string, for example \"39.76838\". Must be sent together with lon, and is an alternative to place rather than an addition to it."New value: +"Birth latitude in decimal degrees as a string. Example: \"39.76838\". Send with lon."

Previous value: -"Birth longitude in decimal degrees as a string, for example \"-86.15804\". Must be sent together with lat."New value: +"Birth longitude in decimal degrees as a string. Example: \"-86.15804\". Send with lat."

Previous value: -"Town or city of birth, with the region or country when the name is a common one. Examples: \"Indianapolis, Indiana, United States\", \"Chennai, India\". It is needed for the birthplace's historic UTC offset, which fixes the birth instant the whole cycle is measured from."New value: +"Town or city of birth with region or country. Example: \"Chennai, India\". An ambiguous name is refused with candidates."

Previous value: -"Birth time, HH:MM on a 24-hour clock, LOCAL AT THE BIRTHPLACE. Example: \"23:58\". REQUIRED — do not invent one and do not send noon. The Moon covers about 13.2 degrees a day against a nakshatra 13 degrees 20 minutes wide, so an unknown time is an unknown first lord and a timeline moved by years. If the user does not know it, ask; do not substitute."New value: +"Birth time HH:MM, 24-hour, LOCAL at the birthplace. Example: \"23:58\". REQUIRED: never invent one, never send noon."

Previous value: -"IANA zone name, or a numeric UTC offset in hours, for the BIRTH moment. Examples: \"America/Indiana/Indianapolis\", \"-5\". Leave it out and the zone is resolved for the birth date, historic reassignments included — which is usually more accurate than anything you would supply."New value: +"IANA zone or numeric UTC offset hours for the BIRTH moment. Example: \"-5\". Omit: resolved historically."

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-        "aiTrainingPermitted": {
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-          "type": "boolean"
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-        "attributionRequired": {
-          "const": true,
-          "type": "boolean"
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-        "citationFormat": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "citationMarkdown": {
-          "description": "The same sentence with the link as Markdown, for an answer that renders Markdown.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "citationText": {
-          "description": "A finished sentence naming Totally Tarot and carrying the permalink.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "contentSignal": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "engine": {
-          "description": "The engine, its version and the theories the figures rest on.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "engineName": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "engineShort": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "engineVersion": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "howToCite": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "jsonUrl": {
-          "format": "uri",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "methodUrl": {
-          "format": "uri",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "permalink": {
-          "description": "The human page that returns this same answer. This is the URL to link.",
-          "format": "uri",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "publisher": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "sourceName": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "sourceUrl": {
-          "format": "uri",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "termsUrl": {
-          "format": "uri",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "theories": {
-          "items": {
-            "type": "string"
-          },
-          "type": "array"
-        },
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-          "type": "string"
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-        "permalink",
-        "engine",
-        "termsUrl"
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-      "type": "object"
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-  "properties": {
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-      "description": "The ready-to-paste credit line. Include this in any answer built on the result.",
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "citation": {
-      "$ref": "#/$defs/Citation"
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-    "error": {
-      "description": "Present instead of result when the input could not be used.",
-      "properties": {
-        "code": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "message": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "suggestions": {
-          "items": {
-            "type": "string"
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-          "type": "array"
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-      },
-      "type": "object"
-    },
-    "inputs": {
-      "description": "What the request was understood to be. The permalink is built from these.",
-      "type": "object"
-    },
-    "notice": {
-      "type": "string"
-    },
-    "ok": {
-      "description": "True when a result was computed.",
-      "type": "boolean"
-    },
-    "result": {
-      "description": "The computed figures. Absent on a refusal.",
-      "properties": {
-        "activeAntardasha": {
-          "description": "The antardasha containing asOf. Null only when asOf sits exactly on the cycle end.",
-          "type": "object"
-        },
-        "activeMahadasha": {
-          "properties": {
-            "antardashas": {
-              "description": "The nine sub-periods of the active mahadasha, same shape as a mahadasha plus mahaLord. Each is the mahadasha's length times that sub-lord's share of 120, so the nine sum exactly to the period containing them.",
-              "type": "array"
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-          },
-          "type": "object"
-        },
-        "asOf": {
-          "description": "The date the active period was selected for. NEVER the wall clock: it is the asof parameter, defaulting to the birth date, so the permalink returns the same answer to anyone who opens it.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "asOfDefaultedToBirth": {
-          "description": "true when asof was not sent. Send today's date to ask which period is running now.",
-          "type": "boolean"
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-        "ayanamsa": {
-          "properties": {
-            "degrees": {
-              "description": "The ayanamsa at the birth instant, in degrees.",
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            "name": {
-              "description": "The sidereal frame the Moon was read in: Lahiri (Chitrapaksha). A dasha table computed on a different ayanamsa is a different table.",
-              "type": "string"
-            }
-          },
-          "type": "object"
-        },
-        "balanceAtBirth": {
-          "properties": {
-            "lord": {
-              "description": "The lord of the period already running at birth.",
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            "remainingText": {
-              "description": "The balance in years, months and days — the figure every printed dasha table leads with and the one a reader checks first. Months and days here are twelfths and 365.25ths of a Vimshottari year, not calendar units.",
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            "remainingYears": {
-              "description": "The same balance as a decimal count of Vimshottari years.",
-              "type": "number"
-            }
-          },
-          "type": "object"
-        },
-        "conventionNote": {
-          "description": "WHY ANOTHER PROGRAM'S TABLE MAY DIFFER, named so the difference can be accounted for rather than argued about. One convention decides it now that the year length agrees with the published implementations: the exact Lahiri variant. A sub-arcminute difference in the Moon becomes days once multiplied through a mahadasha. Measured against Drik Panchang for one birth, every boundary here falls 1.70 days earlier — the same 1.70 at the first and the ninth, because no second term survives. Quote this rather than asserting either table is correct; the two best-known published sources differ from each other by 1.04 days on that same birth.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "cycleEndsUTC": {
-          "description": "When the 120-year cycle from this birth closes. An asof beyond it is refused rather than clamped to the last period.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "mahadashas": {
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-            "properties": {
-              "active": {
-                "description": "Whether the asOf instant falls inside this period. Exactly one row is true.",
-                "type": "boolean"
-              },
-              "durationYears": {
-                "description": "Length in Vimshottari years. The first is short by the balance; the other eight are the lord's full period.",
-                "type": "number"
-              },
-              "endLocal": {
-                "description": "The same, for the close.",
-                "type": "string"
-              },
-              "endUTC": {
-                "description": "The exact instant it closes, which is the instant the next one opens.",
-                "type": "string"
-              },
-              "lord": {
-                "description": "One of the nine Vimshottari lords, in the fixed sequence from the first.",
-                "type": "string"
-              },
-              "startLocal": {
-                "description": "The same instant on the birthplace's clock, carrying its own date and UTC offset — because a bare clock reading is ambiguous by a full day.",
-                "type": "string"
-              },
-              "startUTC": {
-                "description": "The exact instant the period opens, UTC to the second. Not a date: a dasha boundary falls at a clock time and crosses midnight as often as not.",
-                "type": "string"
-              }
-            },
-            "type": "object"
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-          "type": "array"
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-        "moon": {
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-            "fractionElapsed": {
-              "description": "How far through the nakshatra the Moon had travelled, 0 to 1. This is the fraction of the first period already spent before birth.",
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            "nakshatra": {
-              "description": "The nakshatra that longitude falls in, which names the lord of the first mahadasha.",
-              "type": "string"
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-            "pada": {
-              "description": "The quarter of the nakshatra, 1 to 4.",
-              "type": "number"
-            },
-            "siderealLongitude": {
-              "description": "The Moon's sidereal longitude at birth. The single number the whole timeline hangs off.",
-              "type": "number"
-            }
-          },
-          "type": "object"
-        },
-        "origin": {
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-              "description": "A sentence when a historic zone reassignment was applied, null when none was. It is the difference between a right and a wrong balance.",
-              "type": "object"
-            },
-            "offsetLabel": {
-              "description": "The birthplace's UTC offset on the birth date, written out.",
-              "type": "string"
-            },
-            "utcInstant": {
-              "description": "The birth instant in UTC. Every date in the timeline is measured from it.",
-              "type": "string"
-            }
-          },
-          "type": "object"
-        },
-        "yearLengthDays": {
-          "description": "The length of a Vimshottari year in days. The classical text gives the periods and the order and never states one, so this is a CONVENTION: it is the true sidereal year, which is what Drik Panchang requests from its own API and what Jagannatha Hora defaults to. Software stepping a different year — the Julian 365.25, for instance — disagrees by an amount that grows across the cycle, about 0.76 days by the far end for that one.",
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-      "type": "object"
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-    "summary": {
-      "description": "The answer in one sentence.",
-      "type": "string"
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-    "tool": {
-      "description": "The calculator that answered.",
-      "type": "string"
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Previous value: -"WHY ANOTHER PROGRAM'S TABLE MAY DIFFER, named so the difference can be accounted for rather than argued about. Two conventions decide these dates: the exact Lahiri implementation (a sub-arcminute difference in the Moon becomes days once multiplied through a mahadasha) and the Vimshottari year length. Measured against Drik Panchang for one birth, every boundary here falls 3.10 to 3.84 days earlier, and that decomposes entirely into those two terms. Quote this rather than asserting either table is correct."New value: +"WHY ANOTHER PROGRAM'S TABLE MAY DIFFER, named so the difference can be accounted for rather than argued about. One convention decides it now that the year length agrees with the published implementations: the exact Lahiri variant. A sub-arcminute difference in the Moon becomes days once multiplied through a mahadasha. Measured against Drik Panchang for one birth, every boundary here falls 1.70 days earlier — the same 1.70 at the first and the ninth, because no second term survives. Quote this rather than asserting either table is correct; the two best-known published sources differ from each other by 1.04 days on that same birth."

Previous value: -"The length of a Vimshottari year in days. A CONVENTION, not a measurement — software using a different one will disagree with these dates by a growing amount across the cycle. Published so the disagreement is explicable rather than mysterious."New value: +"The length of a Vimshottari year in days. The classical text gives the periods and the order and never states one, so this is a CONVENTION: it is the true sidereal year, which is what Drik Panchang requests from its own API and what Jagannatha Hora defaults to. Software stepping a different year — the Julian 365.25, for instance — disagrees by an amount that grows across the cycle, about 0.76 days by the far end for that one."