Hayanaratna · by Balabhadra
Chapter 7 · Finding the Dashas
दशानयनाधिकाराध्यायः
अथ जन्मकालाभावे जन्मराशिवशाद्दशानयनमुक्तं तत्रैव ॥जन्मकालाद्यभावश्चेत्केचिज्जन्मभतो विदुः ॥तदेव प्रोच्यते पुंसां शुभं तद्वार्षिकम्फलम् ॥ १ ॥
Next, the birth time may not be known. For this, the same book tells how to find the dasha (planet period) from the birth sign. If the birth time and the like are not known, some find the periods from the birth sign. That way is told here. It gives people a sound yearly result.
Simple meaning: Birth time not known: some count the year's periods from the birth sign. That way is given next.
जन्मन्यर्कदशा ततो विधुदशा यावद्द्वितीयो रविस्त्रिस्थेर्केदशवासरा शशिदशा भौमस्य पाकस्ततः ॥
Birth time not known: the periods follow the Sun's move through the houses from the birth sign: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn. Each runs a few…
ततो दशेज्यस्य च यावदष्टनवस्थितेर्के दश वासराः स्युः ॥
Birth time not known, continued: Jupiter while the Sun is in the 8th and 10 days of the 9th. Then Rahu, 20 days into the 10th. Then Venus.
अत्रान्तर्दशानयनम्फलसहितमुक्तं तत्रैव ॥
Sub-periods (Varshaphalapradipa): a period times the other planet's period, divided by 360. Results follow.