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Choghadiya, Daily 8 Day + 8 Night Periods [Vedic Muhurta]

get_choghadiya_today

[Vedic muhurta adjunct] 8 day + 8 night auspicious 1.5-hour periods (Amrit/Shubh/Labh/Char/Udveg/Rog/Kal). Each period returns lord, quality (auspicious/inauspicious), start/end UTC, and interpretation. Also returns 'currentPeriod', the period containing the moment you asked about. Companion to get_panchang. The astrological day runs sunrise to sunrise, so 'utc_offset_minutes' decides which civil day is meant and is required.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
latitude	number	Yes	Location latitude
longitude	number	Yes	Location longitude
utc_offset_minutes	unknown	Yes	no description
query_date	string	No	The moment to read, ISO 8601 (default: now). Pass the FULL datetime, not just a date, whenever the question is about what is running now: a bare date is midnight UTC, so `currentPeriod` would answer for midnight rather than for now. Send a zone (Z, or +hh:mm as in 2026-10-20T10:30:00+05:30). A value without a zone is read as UTC, never as local time, and a date alone is midnight UTC. This is a different moment from judgement_datetime, which is a local wall clock sent with its own offset.

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_choghadiya_today",
    "arguments": {
      "latitude": 0,
      "longitude": 0
    }
  }
}