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Nirayana Shoola dasha

The sidereal reckoning of the Shoola dasha. A variant of Shoola, distinguished by the nirayana reckoning at its seeding step. Like Shoola it is traditionally consulted on questions of longevity; compare the two for the same chart with /api/astro/dasha/shoola/. This is a Jaimini RASHI dasha, so every lord in the response is a sign name, not a planet. Periods are returned as a nested timeline — mahadasha, then antardasha, then pratyantardasha — each carrying its lord and its exact start and end.

https://api.occultapi.com/api/astro/dasha/nirayana-shoola/
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

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
latitudenumber (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

longitudenumber (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

dasha_directionstringoptional
forwardbackward
dasha_startstringoptional

Which cycle the timeline opens on.

currentnextprevious
date_timestring (date-time)optional

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.

datetimestring (date-time)optional

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. Same meaning as date_time, which other endpoints call the same thing by a different name.

days_in_yearnumber (double)optional

Year length the periods are measured in. 360 for the classical savana year, 365.25 for the Julian year.

min 360 · max 365.256364

levelsintegeroptional

How deep to nest: 1 mahadasha only, 2 adds antardasha, 3 adds pratyantardasha. Capped at 4 because the response grows roughly tenfold per level.

min 1 · max 4

nodestringoptional

Lunar node model. Required by the rashi parent, which does not default it; defaulted here.

truemean
timezone_as_floatnumber (double)optional

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

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.occultapi.com/api/astro/dasha/nirayana-shoola/ \
  -H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"latitude":26.9124,"longitude":75.7873,"dasha_direction":"forward","dasha_start":"current","date_time":"2026-09-01 06:00:00","node":"true","timezone_as_float":5.5}'

Response

{
  "_truncated": true,
  "_note": "Response shortened for the catalogue.",
  "preview": "{\"data\": {\"system\": \"Nirayana Shoola\", \"engine_id\": \"NirayanaRaasi\", \"family\": \"rashi\", \"lord_type\": \"sign\", \"levels\": 3, \"level_names\": [\"mahadasha\", \"antardasha\", \"pratyantardasha\"], \"conditional\": false, \"periods\": [{\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2026-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2034-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2026-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-05-02 12:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2026-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-09-21 06:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2026-09-21 06:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-10-14 01:15:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2026-10-14 01:15:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-10-31 18:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Leo\", \"start\": \"2026-10-31 18:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-11-21 00:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Virgo\", \"start\": \"2026-11-21 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-12-13 19:15:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Libra\", \"start\": \"2026-12-13 19:15:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-12-31 12:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Scorpio\", \"start\": \"2026-12-31 12:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-01-20 18:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Sagittarius\", \"start\": \"2027-01-20 18:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-02-12 13:15:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Capricorn\", \"start\": \"2027-02-12 13:15:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-03-02 06:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aquarius\", \"start\": \"2027-03-02 06:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-03-22 12:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Pisces\", \"start\": \"2027-03-22 12:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-04-14 07:15:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aries\", \"start\": \"2027-04-14 07:15:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-05-02 00:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2027-05-02 12:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-01-31 11:00:00+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2027-05-02 12:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-05-28 02:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2027-05-28 02:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-06-17 00:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Leo\", \"start\": \"2027-06-17 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-07-09 18:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Virgo\", \"start\": \"2027-07-09 18:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-08-04 08:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Libra\", \"start\": \"2027-08-04 08:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-08-24 06:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Scorpio\", \"start\": \"2027-08-24 06:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-09-16 00:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Sagittarius\", \"start\": \"2027-09-16 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-10-11 14:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Capricorn\", \"start\": \"2027-10-11 14:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-10-31 12:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aquarius\", \"start\": \"2027-10-31 12:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-11-23 06:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Pisces\", \"start\": \"2027-11-23 06:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-12-18 20:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aries\", \"start\": \"2027-12-18 20:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-01-07 18:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2028-01-07 18:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-01-30 12:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2028-01-31 11:00:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-08-31 12:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2028-01-31 11:00:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-02-15 23:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Leo\", \"start\": \"2028-02-15 23:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-03-04 17:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Virgo\", \"start\": \"2028-03-04 17:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-03-24 17:00:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Libra\", \"start\": \"2028-03-24 17:00:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-04-09 05:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Scorpio\", \"start\": \"2028-04-09 05:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-04-26 23:45:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Sagittarius\", \"start\": \"2028-04-26 23:45:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-05-16 23:00:00+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Capricorn\", \"start\": \"2028-05-16"
}

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

Errors

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