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Yogardha dasha

The Jaimini sign dasha that averages two reckonings. "Yogardha" means half-sum: period lengths are the mean of two other systems' reckonings, which makes it a smoothed reading rather than an independent one. 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/yogardha/
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/yogardha/ \
  -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\": \"Yogardha\", \"engine_id\": \"YogardhaRaasi\", \"family\": \"rashi\", \"lord_type\": \"sign\", \"levels\": 3, \"level_names\": [\"mahadasha\", \"antardasha\", \"pratyantardasha\"], \"conditional\": false, \"periods\": [{\"lord\": \"Aries\", \"start\": \"2026-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2036-03-01 21:30:00+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Aries\", \"start\": \"2026-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-09-17 00:13:21.156069+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Aries\", \"start\": \"2026-09-01 00:30:00+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-10-12 18:07:06.589595+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2026-10-12 18:07:06.589595+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-11-01 12:34:09.710982+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2026-11-01 12:34:09.710982+00:00\", \"end\": \"2026-12-13 06:11:16.300577+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2026-12-13 06:11:16.300577+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-01-04 05:21:19.768785+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Leo\", \"start\": \"2027-01-04 05:21:19.768785+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-02-10 13:32:25.664739+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Virgo\", \"start\": \"2027-02-10 13:32:25.664739+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-03-13 07:34:30.520230+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Libra\", \"start\": \"2027-03-13 07:34:30.520230+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-04-10 20:53:35.028901+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Scorpio\", \"start\": \"2027-04-10 20:53:35.028901+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-05-13 19:38:40.231213+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Sagittarius\", \"start\": \"2027-05-13 19:38:40.231213+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-06-11 08:57:44.739884+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Capricorn\", \"start\": \"2027-06-11 08:57:44.739884+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-07-14 07:42:49.942196+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aquarius\", \"start\": \"2027-07-14 07:42:49.942196+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-08-03 02:09:53.063583+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Pisces\", \"start\": \"2027-08-03 02:09:53.063583+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-09-16 00:29:59.999999+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2027-09-17 00:13:21.156069+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-03-15 11:27:34.335260+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Taurus\", \"start\": \"2027-09-17 00:13:21.156069+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-09-26 08:57:44.739884+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2027-09-26 08:57:44.739884+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-10-16 03:24:47.861271+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2027-10-16 03:24:47.861271+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-10-26 13:07:27.398843+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Leo\", \"start\": \"2027-10-26 13:07:27.398843+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-11-13 05:37:58.612716+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Virgo\", \"start\": \"2027-11-13 05:37:58.612716+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-11-27 19:13:41.965317+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Libra\", \"start\": \"2027-11-27 19:13:41.965317+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-12-11 07:51:09.364161+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Scorpio\", \"start\": \"2027-12-11 07:51:09.364161+00:00\", \"end\": \"2027-12-26 22:25:08.670519+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Sagittarius\", \"start\": \"2027-12-26 22:25:08.670519+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-01-09 11:02:36.069363+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Capricorn\", \"start\": \"2028-01-09 11:02:36.069363+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-01-25 01:36:35.375721+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aquarius\", \"start\": \"2028-01-25 01:36:35.375721+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-02-03 10:20:58.959536+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Pisces\", \"start\": \"2028-02-03 10:20:58.959536+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-02-24 05:46:18.034681+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Aries\", \"start\": \"2028-02-24 05:46:18.034681+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-03-15 00:13:21.156068+00:00\", \"children\": []}]}, {\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2028-03-15 11:27:34.335260+00:00\", \"end\": \"2029-03-31 11:10:55.491329+00:00\", \"children\": [{\"lord\": \"Gemini\", \"start\": \"2028-03-15 11:27:34.335260+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-04-26 05:04:40.924855+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Cancer\", \"start\": \"2028-04-26 05:04:40.924855+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-05-18 04:14:44.393063+00:00\", \"children\": []}, {\"lord\": \"Leo\", \"start\": \"2028-05-18 04:14:44.393063+00:00\", \"end\": \"2028-06-24 12:25:50.289017+00:0"
}

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

Errors

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