Hayanaratna · by Balabhadra
Chapter 7 · Finding the Dashas
दशानयनाधिकाराध्यायः
यदाह सूर्य्यसूरीः ॥यदपि सूचितमत्र सभाफलन्तनुधनादिगतैः खचरैस्तु यत् ॥दिनविभागमृतेन हि गम्यते तदहमत्र दशानयनम्ब्रुवे ॥ १ ॥
As Suryasuri says. Whatever result has been shown here, with the signs, comes from planets in the 1st, 2nd and other houses. It cannot be known without dividing it into days. So here I tell how to work out the dasha (planet period).
Simple meaning: Why dashas are needed: the year's results from the planets in the houses can only be timed by dividing the year into days.
यादवोपि ॥
What a dasha is: the time in which a planet gives the results of the houses. Yadava will teach how to find it.
अथ दशानयनप्रकार उक्तो वर्षतन्त्रे ॥
Same verse as Tajika Nilakanthi 4.1; see its meaning there.
ऊनं विशोध्याधिकतः क्रमेणांशाद्यं विशुद्धांशकशेषकैक्यम् ॥
Same verse as Tajika Nilakanthi 21.2; see its meaning there.