SearchSourceText
SearchSourceText(stringquery,inttopK,stringsourceName,intcontextSize)
Naturallanguage semantic search over the classical Vedic astrology sourcetext knowledge base e.g. Hindu Predictive Astrology BPHS. Returns topK most relevant passages with sourceName pageNumber chunkIndex text and similarity score. Powered by the same DashScope embeddings Cosmos DB vector index used by ContextBasedAstrologyDatas RAG enrichment step.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
query |
String |
PlainEnglish question or topic e.g. effects of Saturn in 7th house. |
topK |
Int32 |
Max passages to return default 5 capped at 20. |
sourceName |
String |
Optional source text to filter by e.g. BrihatParasharaHoraShastra. If nullempty searches all sources. |
contextSize |
Int32 |
Characters of surrounding text to include before and after each matched passage default 600 max 2000. |
Calling this method
Endpoint base: https://api.vedastro.org/api/Calculate/SearchSourceText
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