Advanced techniques

Planetary Avasthas, all five families (BPHS ch. 45)

get_avasthas

Parashari, not KP. The five avastha families of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra ch. 45, per planet, each with its verses: baladi (vv. 3-4: infant, youthful, adolescent, old, dead by six-degree bands, ascending in odd signs and reversed in even, graded one fourth / half / full / negligible / nil), jagradadi (vv. 5-6: awake, dreaming, asleep by dignity), deeptadi (vv. 7-10: nine states by dignity and relationship, every one that holds listed), lajjitadi (vv. 11-18: six states by placement, company and aspect, with v. 18's 'bhavaDestroyed' for Kshudhita and Kshobhita), and sayanadi (vv. 30-39: the twelve states by the stated formula, working shown). Every definition is at the SIGN level as the text states it: exaltation is the exaltation sign, conjunction the same sign, Drishti is graha drishti counted sign to sign, houses are whole sign; the moolatrikona ranges are ch. 3 vv. 51-54 and benefic/malefic follow ch. 34 vv. 8-10. The sayanadi SUB-STATE (Drishti/Cheshta/Vicheshta) needs the Anka value of the first syllable of the native's name, which no chart carries: pass 'name_anka' (1 to 5) to compute it, otherwise it is reported as not computable with the reason, never defaulted. Edition stated (Santhanam 1984). Gates no KP verdict.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
birth_datetime	string	Yes	Birth date and time in ISO 8601 format (e.g., "1990-05-15T14:30:00").
latitude	number	Yes	Birth location latitude. Range: -90 to 90.
longitude	number	Yes	Birth location longitude. Range: -180 to 180.
utc_offset_minutes	number	Yes	UTC offset in minutes (e.g., 330 for IST, -300 for EST).
ayanamsa	enum: kp \| kp_new \| lahiri \| raman \| true_chitra \| khullar	No	Ayanamsa system. Defaults to kp.
name_anka	unknown	No	Anka value of the first syllable of the native's personal name, per Santhanam's table (1: a ka cha da dha bha va; 2: i kha ja dha na ma sha; 3: u ga jha ta pa ya sa; 4: e gha ta tha pha ra sa; 5: o ca tha da ba la ha). Needed only for the sayanadi sub-state.

Example call

Send the request as a standard MCP tools/call:

http

POST https://mcp.lumin.guru/mcp
Authorization: Bearer mcp_yourkey...
Accept: application/json, text/event-stream
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_avasthas",
    "arguments": {
      "birth_datetime": "1992-08-14T04:32:00",
      "latitude": 6.927,
      "longitude": 79.861,
      "utc_offset_minutes": 330,
      "ayanamsa": "kp"
    }
  }
}

Birth data

This tool requires birth data on every call. The MCP server is stateless, so calling set_birth_profile first validates the data and returns the reading plan, but it does not store anything. Repeat the same five fields here.