Licences & credits
What Mantra
stands on.
The Mantra app and this website are © 2026 Aitele Research LLP. Inside them is the work of many others, given freely. Here it is, with thanks.
Software
These open-source packages are part of the app and the website as they reach your device. Each keeps its own licence; the full texts are in third-party.txt.
| Package | Does | Licence | Copyright |
|---|---|---|---|
| React, React DOM, Scheduler | The app's interface | MIT | Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates |
| Motion (motion, framer-motion, motion-dom, motion-utils) | Animation | MIT | 2018 Framer B.V.; 2024 Motion B.V. |
| Google Gen AI SDK | AI readings with your own key | Apache 2.0 | Google LLC |
| p-retry, retry | Retrying requests, inside the Gen AI SDK | MIT | Sindre Sorhus; 2011 Tim Koschützki, Felix Geisendörfer |
Fonts
Google Sans (Latin and Devanagari) and Google Sans Flex, © 2017 Google, Inc. and © 2015 Google LLC, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, packaged by Fontsource. They are served from our own server, not from Google.
Data
- Place search — Open-Meteo geocoding, based on GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.
- Time zones — the IANA time zone database, as your browser carries it, including the history of summer time and of local mean time.
- The offline list of places — compiled for Mantra from public coordinates of Indian centres, world capitals and polar settlements.
Methods
- The Sun and Moon follow Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms (2nd ed., 1998) — the Moon with the ELP-2000/82 series.
- The planets follow E. M. Standish, Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets (JPL Solar System Dynamics).
- The sidereal zodiac uses the Lahiri (Citrapakṣa) ayanāṃśa.
The body figure, the nāḍī field and every illustration in Mantra were drawn for it, from code.
The texts
Mantra is built on the classical texts — among them the Śiva Svarodaya, Śāradātilaka, Mantra-mahodadhi, Ṣaṭcakra-nirūpaṇa, Vijñāna-bhairava, Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra and Praśna-mārga. The texts belong to everyone. The editions and translations we read, with a grade for every claim, are listed in the app under Sources.
Built with
Not shipped, but thanked: Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vitest, Oxlint, Node.js and Caddy.
Last updated 27 October 2026. Something missing or wrong? hello@aiteleresearch.com