POST/api/astro/chara-karakas/1 credit

Chara karakas (Jaimini)

The eight Jaimini chara karakas, as planet names rather than raw indices. The karakas rank the planets by how far through their sign they stand, highest first, with Rahu counted backwards because it moves backwards. Whichever planet comes top is the Atmakaraka, the significator of the self, and the whole of Jaimini's method rests on it. The underlying endpoint returns a bare array like [4, 5, 2, 0, 1, 6, 3, 7]. This returns which planet holds which karaka and what each karaka signifies.

https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/chara-karakas/

Test Request

Authentication

Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Keys are server-side credentials — never put one in browser JavaScript or a mobile app.

X-API-Key: yt_live_a1b2c3d4_…
Content-Type: application/json

Request fields

Field	Type	Required	Notes
date_time	string (date-time)	required	The moment to calculate for, ISO 8601. ALWAYS include an offset or a trailing Z - a value with no zone is read as Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30), not UTC, and can return the previous day's result with a 200. '2026-09-01T06:00:00Z' and '2026-09-01 06:00:00' are different instants and give different answers.
latitude	number (double)	required	Latitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is north, negative is south. Example: 26.9124 for Jaipur, 40.7128 for New York. Minutes and seconds are not accepted - convert first. min -90 · max 90
longitude	number (double)	required	Longitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is east, negative is west. Example: 75.7873 for Jaipur, -74.0060 for New York. Note the sign: a missing minus puts New York in China. min -180 · max 180
timezone_as_float	number (double)	required	UTC offset of the place, in hours, as a decimal. Example: 5.5 for India (UTC+05:30), -5 for New York in winter, 5.75 for Nepal. This is NOT validated against date_time - if the two disagree you get a successful response for the wrong moment, so derive both from the same source. Use the offset in force on that date, not today's: a summer birth in a country with daylight saving needs the summer offset. min -12 · max 14
keys	array	optional	Which calculations to return, as a list of names. See the key table for this endpoint; an unrecognised name rejects the whole request. One call costs one credit however many keys you ask for, so request everything you need at once rather than making several calls.
node	string	optional
planet	string	optional
raasi	integer	optional	min 1 · max 12

Example request

curl -X POST https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/chara-karakas/ \
  -H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"date_time":"1990-05-10T19:55:00+05:30","latitude":26.9124,"longitude":75.7873,"timezone_as_float":5.5,"node":"true"}'

Response

{
  "data": {
    "system": "jaimini",
    "scheme": "eight_karaka",
    "karakas": [
      {
        "karaka": "atma_karaka",
        "signifies": "Self",
        "planet": "Jupiter",
        "planet_index": 4
      },
      {
        "karaka": "amatya_karaka",
        "signifies": "Career and counsel",
        "planet": "Moon",
        "planet_index": 1
      },
      {
        "karaka": "bhratri_karaka",
        "signifies": "Siblings",
        "planet": "Venus",
        "planet_index": 5
      },
      {
        "karaka": "maitri_karaka",
        "signifies": "Friends",
        "planet": "Saturn",
        "planet_index": 6
      },
      {
        "karaka": "pitri_karaka",
        "signifies": "Father",
        "planet": "Sun",
        "planet_index": 0
      },
      {
        "karaka": "putra_karaka",
        "signifies": "Children",
        "planet": "Mercury",
        "planet_index": 3
      },
      {
        "karaka": "jnaati_karaka",
        "signifies": "Kin and obstacles",
        "planet": "Mars",
        "planet_index": 2
      },
      {
        "karaka": "dara_karaka",
        "signifies": "Spouse",
        "planet": "Rahu",
        "planet_index": 7
      }
    ],
    "atma_karaka": "Jupiter"
  },
  "status": 200,
  "is_error": false,
  "message": "successful"
}

Captured from a real call using the exact request above. Results sit under data.

Errors

Metering errors return { "error": "…", "message": "<code>", "is_error": true }. Show error to people and branch on message. See the error reference.