POST/api/astro/dasha/panchottari/1 credit

Panchottari dasha

The 105-year conditional cycle. Among the shorter conditional nakshatra dashas, which means its sub-periods resolve to human timescales faster than Vimshottari's do. This is a CONDITIONAL dasha: the classical texts apply it only when a particular configuration holds in the chart, so it is not a reading that is admissible for everyone. Call /api/astro/dasha_applicability/ to test which conditional dashas a given chart actually admits before you show one.

https://api.occultapi.com/api/astro/dasha/panchottari/

Test Request

Authentication

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

Request fields

Field	Type	Required	Notes
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
dasha_direction	string	optional	`forwardbackward`
dasha_start	string	optional	Which cycle the timeline opens on. `currentnextprevious`
date_time	string (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.
datetime	string (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_year	number (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
levels	integer	optional	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
node	string	optional	Lunar node model. Required by the rashi parent, which does not default it; defaulted here. `truemean`
timezone_as_float	number (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/panchottari/ \
  -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\": \"Panchottari\", \"engine_id\": \"PanchottariDasha\", \"family\": \"nakshatra\", \"lord_type\": \"planet\", \"levels\": 3, \"level_names\": [\"mahadasha\", \"antardasha\", \"pratyantardasha\"], \"cycle_years\": 105, \"conditional\": true, \"periods\": [{\"lord\": \"venus\", \"start\": \"2024-11-22 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"end\": \"2040-11-22 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"venus\", \"start\": \"2024-11-22 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-05-01 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"venus\", \"start\": \"2024-11-22 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"end\": \"2025-04-06 19:56:26.427538+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"moon\", \"start\": \"2025-04-06 19:56:26.427538+00:00\", \"end\": \"2025-08-28 22:13:34.998967+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"jupiter\", \"start\": \"2025-08-28 22:13:34.998967+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-01-28 11:56:26.427538+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"sun\", \"start\": \"2026-01-28 11:56:26.427538+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-05-10 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mercury\", \"start\": \"2026-05-10 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-08-28 09:39:17.856109+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"saturn\", \"start\": \"2026-08-28 09:39:17.856109+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-12-25 01:39:17.856109+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mars\", \"start\": \"2026-12-25 01:39:17.856109+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-05-01 05:05:00.713252+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"moon\", \"start\": \"2027-05-01 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"end\": \"2029-12-02 21:32:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"moon\", \"start\": \"2027-05-01 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-10-01 21:18:43.570395+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"jupiter\", \"start\": \"2027-10-01 21:18:43.570395+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-03-12 01:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"sun\", \"start\": \"2028-03-12 01:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-06-28 04:10:09.284680+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mercury\", \"start\": \"2028-06-28 04:10:09.284680+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-10-23 07:08:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"saturn\", \"start\": \"2028-10-23 07:08:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2029-02-26 10:20:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mars\", \"start\": \"2029-02-26 10:20:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2029-07-11 13:46:09.284680+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"venus\", \"start\": \"2029-07-11 13:46:09.284680+00:00\", \"end\": \"2029-12-02 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"jupiter\", \"start\": \"2029-12-02 21:32:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2032-08-30 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"jupiter\", \"start\": \"2029-12-02 21:32:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2030-05-23 11:56:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"sun\", \"start\": \"2030-05-23 11:56:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2030-09-14 21:32:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mercury\", \"start\": \"2030-09-14 21:32:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2031-01-16 19:56:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"saturn\", \"start\": \"2031-01-16 19:56:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2031-05-30 07:08:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mars\", \"start\": \"2031-05-30 07:08:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2031-10-20 07:08:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"venus\", \"start\": \"2031-10-20 07:08:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2032-03-20 19:56:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"moon\", \"start\": \"2032-03-20 19:56:26.427537+00:00\", \"end\": \"2032-08-29 21:32:26.427537+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"sun\", \"start\": \"2032-08-30 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"end\": \"2034-06-29 14:41:00.713252+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"sun\", \"start\": \"2032-08-30 17:25:34.998966+00:00\", \"end\": \"2032-11-14 22:54:43.570395+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mercury\", \"start\": \"2032-11-14 22:54:43.570395+00:00\", \"end\": \"2033-02-05 12:51:17.856109+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"saturn\", \"start\": \"2033-02-05 12:51:17.856109+00:00\", \"end\": \"2033-05-05 11:15:17.856109+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"mars\", \"start\": \"2033-05-05 11:15:17.856109+00:00\", \"end\": \"2033-08-08 18:06:43.570395+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"venus\", \"start\": \"2033-08-08 18:06:43.570395+00:00\", \"end\": \"2033-11-"
}

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