Hayanaratna · by Balabhadra
Chapter 7 · Finding the Dashas
दशानयनाधिकाराध्यायः
अथ देवकीर्तिमतेन वर्षप्रवेशादौ हद्दादशा ताजिकमुक्तावल्याम् ॥हद्दांशारविसङ्गुणास्तनुगताः श्रीदेवकीर्त्याश्रयाद्धद्दास्वामिदशादिनान्यथतनौ यो हद्दपस्तत्क्रमात् ॥मासे हद्दलवादिनानि खलु मासर्क्षाद्दिने तत्प्रवेशर्क्षाद्विघ्नलवैर्मिता खलु दशाघट्यो ग्रहाणां स्मृताः ॥१॥
Next, by Devakirti's view, the hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign) dasha (planet period) at the year entry and so on, in the Tajikamuktavali. Following Shri Devakirti, take the hadda degrees in the lagna (rising sign) sign, times 12. These are the days of the hadda lords' periods. They run in order from the hadda lord in the lagna. In the month, the hadda degrees are days, from the month's sign. In the day, from the sign at its entry, the doubled degrees give the planets' period in ghatikas (24-minute units).
Simple meaning: Hadda periods: in the year, each hadda's degrees times 12 give days. In the month the degrees are days; in the day, doubled degrees are ghatikas.
लग्नेंकग्रहहद्दांशभुक्तभोग्यांशसंगुणा॥
Hadda periods: the lagna's hadda lord's period is split into passed and coming parts by its degrees.
मे वृ मि क सिं क तु वृ ध म कुं मी
Table of hadda days in the year: for each sign, its five hadda lords and their days.
गम्या तुल्या तत्र दशाहद्देशस्यादिमा भवेत्॥
Hadda periods: the current hadda lord comes first, with its part to come. The others follow in the table's order.