About Udaya

Udaya answers the questions a household actually opens an almanac for. Is now a good time. When does this festival fall, in my town and by my reckoning. Do these two horoscopes agree. What is this temple, and what is the story told there.

It holds 369 festival pages, 484 temples, 47 gods, 36 arts and 21 of the works the stories come from, in thirteen languages. The almanac itself — the panchangam, the poruthams, a jathagam, the dasa, the transits — is computed on your device from an ephemeris that ships with the app, not fetched from a server.

The arithmetic runs on your phone

Not as a privacy gesture — though it is one — but because an almanac that needs a network is useless in the places people most want one: a temple with no signal, a train, a power cut. It also means the calculation cannot quietly change under you. How it is computed sets out the arithmetic, and the ephemeris page says where the positions come from.

Where traditions disagree, it says so

Vakya and Thirukanitha place some festivals on different days. The ten poruthams and the thirty-six Kuta points give different answers about the same couple. Most almanacs pick one and print it as the answer. This one names which it used and lets you change it, because a family that keeps a different reckoning is not wrong, and a site that flattens them is.

It does not pretend to more precision than it has

Positions are good to about an arc-second. A remembered birth time is not, so the jathagam and porutham pages say when a placement sits close enough to a boundary that the clock, not the sky, is deciding its name.

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• No fear. A dosham is reported where the tradition finds one, with what it means and what is usually done, and never as a warning designed to sell a remedy.

The parts that do use a server are the matrimony service, the question board and sittings with an astrologer, because each of those involves other people by definition. Privacy says exactly what they hold.

Questions on the board are answered by the site's astrologers, whose training is checked before they are listed — see the directory. Answers written by the people who build the site are marked Udaya Team instead, so you can always tell a method from a judgement.

Matrimony profiles are read by a person and verified only after a telephone call to the family. Nothing about that is automated, and the server refuses to mark a profile verified before the call is recorded.

Write to us about anything, or read the help first — it answers most of it.