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  Pranav Anand¹   and   Anand Vadakepat¹ ¹ RetroGrade, Jothishi Online and Advertising Services Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India Correspondence: research@retrograde.co.in    ·    https://retrograde.co.in Abstract Retrograde (vakri) motion is one of the most interpretively significant — and most frequently misapplied — constructs in Vedic astrology, yet consumer astrology software typically reduces it to a boolean flag. This paper gives a precise, reproducible treatment. We (i) formalize apparent retrograde motion in the geocentric ecliptic frame, deriving the station condition and the synodic timing of the retrograde arc for the classical grahas; (ii) formalize the classical quantification of motional strength — ceṣṭā-bala — within Parāśara's ṣaḍbala scheme, and relate it to the eight-fold gati taxonomy; (iii) present algorithms that determine retrograde state and compute ceṣṭā-bala directly from an ephemeris; and (iv) describe how these primi...

  Anand Vadakepat and Pranav Anand¹* · ¹ ¹Jothishi Online and Advertising Services Private Limited (RetroGrade), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India *Corresponding author: [email] · Platform: retrograde.co.in Abstract Vedic astrology (Jyotiṣa) encodes one of the largest continuously practiced interpretive knowledge systems in human history, yet its analytical procedures remain largely undigitized in a form suitable for open-ended natural-language interaction. We present the knowledge architecture underlying RetroGrade, a conversational platform that maps free-text life questions to structured Parāśarī analysis. The system decomposes the space of user intents into a taxonomy of approximately 14,000 probable questions spanning the principal domains of human concern — career, marriage and relationships, wealth, health, education, progeny, property, litigation, travel, spirituality, personality and event timing — and services them through a federation of...