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LordOfLunarYear

LordOfLunarYear(TimeinputTime)

Gets the bLord of the Lunar Yearb VarshadhipatiAbdadhipathi the planet ruling the Hindu lunar year that contains the given time. Principle per B.V. Raman Graha and Bhava Balas Article 60 The Abdadhipathi the year lord is the planet that rules over the weekday on which the year begins. This method applies that principle to the actual lunar calendar year as pancangas do 1. finds the Chaitra new moon that began the current lunar year 2. finds the first sunrise after it Chaitra Shukla Pratipada the years first day 3. returns the lord of that weekday SundaySun ... SaturdaySaturn. Example the lunar year Vikari 201920 began Saturday 6 April 2019 so its year lord is Saturn. Note the related method YearAndMonthLord computes Article 60s arithmetic variant used for Kala Bala 360day years counted by ahargana from an epoch which can give a different planet from the pancanga lunarcalendar year lord returned here.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
inputTime	Time

Calling this method

Endpoint base: https://api.vedastro.org/api/Calculate/LordOfLunarYear

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