Vedākṣha — Vision from Vedas

Astronomical ephemeris and Vedic astrology platform. Clean-room Rust implementation with sub-arcsecond planetary precision.

Celestial computation. Agentic precision.

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Quick Start

use vedaksha::prelude::*;

let jd = calendar_to_jd(2024, 3, 20, 12.0);
let chart = compute_chart(
    jd, 28.6139, 77.2090,
    &ChartConfig::vedic()
);

cargo add vedaksha-astro vedaksha-ephem-core

pip install vedaksha

Workspace

Plus Python bindings via PyO3 (pip install vedaksha).

Two Ephemeris Providers

The AnalyticalProvider uses VSOP87A (Bretagnon & Francou 1988) for planets and ELP/MPP02 (Chapront 2002) for the Moon. All coefficients are compile-time constants — no runtime data files needed.

Computation Pipeline

JPL DE440 SPK → Chebyshev evaluation → ICRS barycentric
  → light-time correction → precession (IAU 2006 P03, 5th-order)
  → nutation (IAU 2000B) → frame bias (ICRS→J2000)
  → aberration → ecliptic coordinates

Or for zero-data environments:

VSOP87A/ELP coefficients (compiled) → Poisson series evaluation
  → heliocentric ecliptic → equatorial rotation → barycentric ICRS
  → same downstream pipeline as above

Delta T: IERS measured table (1620-2025) + Espenak-Meeus predictions to 2050.

Vedic Astrology

First-class Jyotish support — not a Western afterthought.

• Nakshatras: 27 lunar mansions with padas, lords, symbols, deities

• Dashas: Vimshottari (120-year), Yogini (36-year), Chara (sign-based), Ashtottari (108-year), Narayana (Jaimini)

• Vargas: All 16 divisional charts (Rashi through Shashtiamsha)

• Yogas: 50 classical combinations (Pancha Mahapurusha, Dhana, Raja, Daridra, etc.)

• Shadbala: Complete 6-component planetary strength

• Ayanamsha: 44 sidereal systems (Lahiri, Raman, KP, Fagan-Bradley, and 40 more)

• Lunar nodes: Mean, True (Meeus 5-term, ~0.09°), and Osculating (<0.03° vs JPL DE441) — KP sub-lord ready

• Panchanga: Complete 5-limb day — Tithi (with paksha, lord), Vara (with Rahu/Gulika Kalam), Nakshatra (with deity, yoni, nadi), Yoga (27 astronomical), Karana (60 half-tithis)

• Drishti: Graded aspect strengths — Full, ThreeQuarter (75%), Half (50%), Quarter (25%) per BPHS Ch. 26

AI-First Architecture

Every chart computation produces a property graph — not flat structs. AI agents query chart data with Cypher, SurrealQL, or JSON-LD. The MCP server exposes 7 fully functional tools:

• compute_natal_chart — Full natal chart with houses, planets, aspects, dignities

• compute_dasha — Vimshottari dasha periods to any depth

• compute_vargas — Divisional chart positions

• compute_transit — Transit positions against natal with aspects

• search_transits — Find exact transit events in a date range

• search_muhurta — Find auspicious times with quality scoring

• emit_graph — Emit chart as Cypher, SurrealQL, JSON-LD, or embedding text

Run the MCP server:

cargo install vedaksha-mcp          # install
vedaksha-mcp                        # stdio (Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor)
vedaksha-mcp --http                 # HTTP on port 3100 (Smithery, remote)
vedaksha-mcp --http --port 8080     # custom port
docker run -p 3100:3100 ghcr.io/arthiqlabs/vedaksha-mcp  # Docker

Accuracy

Validated against independent reference ephemerides across 24,000+ oracle data points:

Bindings

Published Packages

• crates.io: 10 crates — vedaksha, vedaksha-math, vedaksha-ephem-core, vedaksha-astro, vedaksha-vedic, vedaksha-graph, vedaksha-emit, vedaksha-locale, vedaksha-mcp, vedaksha-wasm

• PyPI: vedaksha

• npm: vedaksha-wasm

• Docker: ghcr.io/arthiqlabs/vedaksha-mcp

License

Business Source License 1.1 (BSL).

• Non-commercial use: Free. Personal projects, research, education, internal tools.

• Commercial use: $500 one-time per organization. Purchase license.

• Converts to Apache 2.0 five years after each version's release date.

See LICENSE for full terms.

Links

• Website: vedaksha.net

• Documentation: vedaksha.net/docs

• AI Integration: vedaksha.net/ai

• crates.io: crates.io/crates/vedaksha-ephem-core

• PyPI: pypi.org/project/vedaksha

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