A Knowledge-Grounded Multi-Agent Architecture for Vedic Astrological Question Answering: Operationalizing Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra Across 1,000 Specialized Agents
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...