/v1/panchang/brahma-muhurat

Brahma Muhurat window.

What this tells you

Brahma Muhurat is the pre-dawn period classically recommended for meditation, prayer and study. The API divides the night (the previous sunset to sunrise on `date`) into 15 equal muhurtas and returns the 14th: it starts two night-muhurtas before sunrise and ends one night-muhurta before sunrise. Its length is one fifteenth of the night, so it changes with the season (about 54 minutes in this winter example).

`*_jd` values are Julian Days in UT. `*_local` strings are local wall-clock time in the request `tz`, formatted "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" with no offset. The `time` parameter does not change the result. If the previous sunset cannot be found, a fixed 48-minute muhurta is used instead. If the Sun does not rise on `date` (polar day or night) the API returns 422 `data_unavailable`.

Request

All requests require an Authorization header with your dv_live_* API key.

example request

curl "https://api.lifeastroapi.com/v1/panchang/brahma-muhurat?date=2027-01-15&tz=Asia%2FKolkata&lat=28.6139&lon=77.209" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Query parameters

Checked against the API: a parameter is marked required when the request fails without it.

Name	Required	Example	Description
`date`	yes	`2027-01-15`	Date (YYYY-MM-DD).
`tz`	yes	`Asia/Kolkata`	Timezone: IANA name (Asia/Kolkata) or UTC offset (+05:30).
`lat`	yes	`28.6139`	Latitude in decimal degrees.
`lon`	yes	`77.209`	Longitude in decimal degrees.

Response (200 OK)

The real response to the example request above, generated from the API itself. Long arrays are trimmed to their first two items. Field names are stable across versions.

200 response

{
  "date": "2027-01-15",
  "location": {
    "lat": 28.6139,
    "lon": 77.209,
    "alt": 0
  },
  "tz": "Asia/Kolkata",
  "window": {
    "start_jd": 2461420.497823,
    "end_jd": 2461420.535293,
    "start_local": "2027-01-15 05:26:52",
    "end_local": "2027-01-15 06:20:49"
  }
}

Field reference

Every field in the response, with its type, a real example, and what it means.

Field	Type	Meaning
date	string	Echo of the `date` parameter (local date). example: `"2027-01-15"`
location	object	Echo of `lat`, `lon` and `alt` (metres, default 0). example: `{ "lat": 28.6139, "lon": 77.209, "alt": 0 }`
tz	string	Echo of the `tz` parameter. The `*_local` times are in this zone. example: `"Asia/Kolkata"`
window.start_jd	number	Start of Brahma Muhurat, as a Julian Day in UT. example: `2461420.497823`
window.end_jd	number	End of Brahma Muhurat, as a Julian Day in UT. example: `2461420.535293`
window.start_local	string (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)	Start in local time (request `tz`): two night-muhurtas before sunrise. example: `"2027-01-15 05:26:52"`
window.end_local	string (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)	End in local time (request `tz`): one night-muhurta before sunrise. example: `"2027-01-15 06:20:49"`

Usage tips

How to use it

Daily reminders
Meditation apps often schedule a notification for Brahma Muhurat. Call this endpoint once a day per user location and schedule from `window.start_local`.
It ends before sunrise
The window ends one night-muhurta before sunrise, not at sunrise. Get the sunrise time from /v1/panchang/sunrise-sunset if you want to show both.
Duration is not returned
Compute it as (window.end_jd − window.start_jd) × 1440 to get minutes.

Errors

Every error follows the same envelope. Use the error.code field (not the message) for conditional logic in your integration.

401 Unauthorized

{
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "missing or invalid API key",
    "request_id": "req_01hqy7k8c3e7m1n"
  }
}

402 Payment Required

{
  "error": {
    "code": "trial_exhausted",
    "message": "your free trial credits are exhausted — pick a plan to continue",
    "top_up_url": "https://lifeastroapi.com/pricing",
    "request_id": "req_01hqy7k8c3e7m1n"
  }
}

429 Too Many Requests

{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "rate limit exceeded; retry after 12 seconds",
    "request_id": "req_01hqy7k8c3e7m1n"
  }
}

Try it

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