About AstroPal — AI Vedic Astrology on the Goravani Engine

About AstroPal

AstroPal is an AI-powered Vedic astrology companion that reads your birth chart and answers your questions using the actual words of the masters — not generic horoscope language.

Our promise

Every interpretation AstroPal gives is grounded in one of two things: a computed chart fact (Shadbala value, Bhavabala, planetary position, current dasha) or a retrieved scriptural citation from 16 indexed classical texts — Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Saravali, Phala Dipika, Jataka Parijata, Bhrigu Samhita, Brihat Samhita, and 10 more.

Where a classical citation cannot be retrieved, the system says so honestly: “No direct classical citation retrieved for this point.” No invented quotes. No vague predictions. No fluff.

Goravani-grade computation

AstroPal’s chart engine is validated against Goravani Jyotish Studio — the gold-standard reference software used by professional Vedic astrologers for 30+ years. Sub-arcsecond accuracy. Lahiri ayanamsa (sidereal, never tropical). Whole-sign houses (Parashari). Shadbala, Bhavabala, Ashtakavarga, 16+ divisional charts (vargas), Vimshottari dasha — all computed exactly.

The classical-text engine

Most astrology apps generate vague horoscopes from large language models trained on generic web content. AstroPal does the opposite: every chat answer goes through a Mnemonic Graph that ties the LLM’s reasoning to specific computed values and retrieved scripture excerpts. The result is interpretation that an experienced Jyotishi can verify against the texts.

Founder

AstroPal is built by R. Sivadas — based in Karnataka, India, and operating AstroPal as a sole proprietorship. The decision to start AstroPal came from a simple observation: every AI-driven astrology product on the market today produces text that sounds plausible but cannot be traced to any classical authority. For a discipline with a 2,000-year scriptural tradition, that is an unacceptable gap.

The technical foundation rests on three pillars. First, a Goravani Jyotish Studio licence held since 2025 — the same software professional Vedic astrologers have used for 30+ years — provides the gold-standard reference our computation engine is validated against. Second, an indexed corpus of 16 classical Sanskrit Jyotish texts (Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Saravali, Phala Dipika, Jataka Parijata, Bhrigu Samhita, Brihat Samhita, Hora Sara, Uttara Kalamrita, and more) provides the citation pool every chat answer draws from. Third, a Mnemonic Graph reasoning architecture ties every LLM-generated sentence to either a computed chart value or a retrieved classical excerpt, with hallucination guardrails enforced in code.

Background: engineering and product, three decades of building systems where precision matters. AstroPal applies that discipline to a domain (Vedic astrology) where it has historically been absent. Goravani-grade chart computation, classical-text-only interpretation, and editorial transparency are the three commitments that distinguish AstroPal from the generic AI-horoscope category.

Editorial discipline (enforced in code): every interpretive sentence on AstroPal must come from a retrieved classical text or be a directly computed chart fact. Where the corpus has no citation for a question, the system says so honestly — never invents one. This rule is the reason AstroPal exists.

Reach the founder: hello@astropal.ai.

Why this matters

Vedic astrology is a discipline with a 2,000-year scriptural tradition. Modern AI tools have largely ignored that tradition, producing answers that sound plausible but cannot be traced to any classical source. AstroPal exists to bring the texts back to the centre — and to give serious students and practitioners a tool that respects the discipline.

Last updated: June 2026