Where it is
In the Ganit app for iPhone and Android, from version 1.6.0, every screen carries a sun button in its header. Press it on the panchang and ask what a tithi is; press it on a kundli and ask what the dasha bar is counting. The answer is about that screen, with that screen’s numbers in it.
On this site, every term already carries a note — the dotted underline and the small question mark. Sage is the same knowledge, asked as a question. You can try it below.
Two layers, and the first never needs the network
Always
Ganit’s own answer
The question is matched against Ganit’s glossary — the same definitions behind every note on this site — and answered with the figure from the screen beside it. In the app this runs on the phone, offline. Nothing is sent anywhere.
When it is switched on
A fuller written answer
Some questions are sentences, not words: “why is my festival a day after India’s?” For those, when Ganit’s server has a model configured, the question goes to it with the screen’s figures and comes back as a short written explanation. If that is not switched on, or does not answer, the first answer simply stays. Nothing breaks.
What it is sent, and what it is never sent
| Sent with a question | Never sent |
|---|---|
| The question you typed. The name of the screen. The figures that screen computed — a tithi and the minute it ends, a Rāhu Kāla window, a kūṭa score. | Your birth date, birth time or birth place. Your name. Anything that would let the answer be about you rather than about the term. |
The fuller answer is written by a model from Anthropic. Ganit’s server passes it the three things on the left and nothing else, does not keep the question or the answer, and limits how many questions one address can send in an hour. The privacy page says the same thing in full.
It explains. It does not predict.
Ganit computes what the texts define and shows its working. It does not tell anyone what will happen to them, whether a day is lucky for them, or what they should do. Sage holds to the same line: ask it what Sāḍe Sātī is and it will tell you how the period is measured; ask it what Sāḍe Sātī will do to you and it will say that Ganit does not forecast, and then explain the period.
It never invents a number. If an answer needs a figure the screen did not give it, it says which screen shows that figure instead of guessing.
Try it
This page has no screen of figures behind it, so the questions here are sent with none. In the app, the same question carries the numbers on the screen you asked from.