BDA MCP — Jyotish, Panchang & Sanatan Dharma tools for AI agents

Remote Model Context Protocol server by Bharat Dharma Academy, an Australian registered charity preserving Sanatan Dharma knowledge (ABN 54 683 667 656).

Endpoint: https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/mcp (JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTPS — no install, no API key for the evaluation tier)

The server exposes 15 public, read-only tools backed by the same deterministic engines that power bda.ai: Swiss-Ephemeris Panchang computation, festival calendars, muhurat windows, Jyotish concept explanations, and a source-grounded Sanatan knowledge corpus with citations and provenance metadata.

Quick start

Any MCP client that supports remote HTTP servers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bda-jyotish": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http bda-jyotish https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/mcp

Raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Related MCP server: Vedaksha

Tools

Live machine-readable catalog: /mcp/tools.json

Discovery & documentation

• MCP documentation page: https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/docs/mcp

• Full public REST API docs (OpenAPI): https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/api-docs

• A2A agent card: https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json

• llms.txt: https://jyotish-api.bda.ai/llms.txt

Notes

• Read-only and public. Authenticated user tools (personal Kundali, dashboards, saved reports) are intentionally not exposed here.

• Free evaluation tier with fair-use rate limits (Retry-After on 429). Commercial access: info@bda.ai.

• Responses carry citations, provenance and trust-tier metadata — keep them intact and visible to downstream users.

• Jyotish content is spiritual/cultural guidance, not medical, legal or financial advice.

License

The documentation in this repository is MIT-licensed. The hosted API itself is governed by the usage terms at jyotish-api.bda.ai/api-docs.