{"title":"Ayurveda seasonal regimen","fields":[{"key":"date","name":"date","kind":"date","required":true,"description":"The date to resolve, in YYYY-MM-DD format. The season is read at midday UTC on this date, because a season boundary is an instant and a calendar day has to be reduced to one; on a day that carries a boundary, the half the midday falls in is the answer. Within about two months of either end of the supported span, a date whose season opens or closes outside that span answers 400.","example":"2026-03-01"},{"key":"ritucharyaScheme","name":"ritucharyaScheme","kind":"tiles","required":false,"description":"Which six-season division the year is cut into. \"sutrasthana-6\" is the standard set of sisira, vasanta, grisma, varsa, sarad and hemanta, and is the default. \"vimana-8\" is the alternate division in which three seasons of extreme character alternate with three of moderate character and pravrt, the season of the first rains, replaces sisira. The alternate is not a relabelling: five of the six boundaries move, and because its verse gives no solar-month boundaries the month allocation is a RoxyAPI convention, stated in the response.","enum":["sutrasthana-6","vimana-8"],"default":"sutrasthana-6","example":"sutrasthana-6","fold":true},{"key":"rituZodiac","name":"rituZodiac","kind":"tiles","required":false,"description":"Which zodiac the solar-month boundaries are measured in. \"sayana\" is the tropical reading, which is what published almanacs use for seasons and is the default. \"nirayana\" is the sidereal reading in the Lahiri frame, which runs about 24 days later. The gap is the size of the ayanamsa, so near a boundary the two answer with different seasons for the same date, which is why the value is echoed in every response.","enum":["sayana","nirayana"],"default":"sayana","example":"sayana","fold":true},{"key":"hemisphere","name":"hemisphere","kind":"tiles","required":false,"description":"Which half of the world the season names are stated for. Defaults to \"northern\", which is the half the primary text describes. It is NEVER inferred from a latitude: a silent flip would change the answer without the caller asking, and no classical text handles the southern case at all. Passing \"southern\" rotates the six season names by three places, following a modern almanac rather than a verse, and the response says so and states what was not rotated with them.","enum":["northern","southern"],"default":"northern","example":"northern","fold":true}],"hasLang":true,"groups":[{}],"opensOnLoad":false}