POST/api/astro/vasa-segments/1 credit

Agni vasa and Shiva vasa

Where fire and Shiva are held to reside through the day, as timed segments. Two muhurta considerations consulted for the same kinds of decision — homa and other fire rituals for agni vasa, anything Shiva-facing for shiva vasa. Both come back as lists of segments rather than a single state for the day, because either can change part-way through it. Each segment carries its own start and end, so you can say "Prithvi until 07:01, then Akasha" instead of picking one label for the whole day and being wrong for half of it. The agni segments flag `is_patala`, which is the state those rituals are specifically avoided in. Hindi labels come through as `state_hi`.

https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/vasa-segments/

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 -89.9 · max 89.9
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
dhuma_vyatipata_relation	string	optional	`360_minus_dhumadhuma_plus_53_20`
eccentric_anomaly	number (double)	optional
eccentricity	number (double)	optional
gulika_portion	string	optional	`saturneighth`
gulika_rises_at	string	optional	`beginningmiddleend`
kala_mrityu_rise_at	string	optional	`beginningmiddleend`
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.
mandi_portion	string	optional	`saturneighth`
mandi_rises_at	string	optional	`beginningmiddleend`
mean_anomaly	number (double)	optional
mode	string	optional
nakshatras	string	optional
samvata_type	string	optional
tolerance	number (double)	optional

Example request

curl -X POST https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/vasa-segments/ \
  -H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"date_time":"2026-09-09T06:00:00+05:30","latitude":26.9124,"longitude":75.7873,"timezone_as_float":5.5}'

Response

{
  "data": {
    "agni_vasa": [
      {
        "state": "Prithvi (Earth)",
        "is_patala": false,
        "start_time": "2026-09-08T09:13:55Z",
        "end_time": "2026-09-09T07:01:45Z"
      },
      {
        "state": "Akasha (Heaven)",
        "is_patala": false,
        "start_time": "2026-09-09T07:01:45Z",
        "end_time": "2026-09-10T05:04:16Z"
      }
    ],
    "shiva_vasa": [
      {
        "state": "at Bhojanam (Meal/Meditation)",
        "start_time": "2026-09-08T09:13:55Z",
        "end_time": "2026-09-09T07:01:45Z"
      },
      {
        "state": "in Shmashana",
        "start_time": "2026-09-09T07:01:45Z",
        "end_time": "2026-09-10T05:04:16Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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.