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Hayanaratna · by Balabhadra
Chapter 7 · Finding the Dashas
दशानयनाधिकाराध्यायः
न तु यादवोक्तदशा सावने किंमूलम्पूर्वोक्तसमरसिंहवाक्ये राशिशब्दोपादानात्समरसिंहवाक्यमेव मूलमिति यतो राशिशब्दो मेषादिराशिवाचकः संघवाचकश्च द्वौ राशीपुंजमेषाद्यावित्यमरसिंहोक्तेरत्रराशिशब्दः संघवाची संपन्नः कथं अंशकशब्दस्त्रिंशद्भाववाचकोस्ति राशिशब्दस्य मेषादिवाचकत्वे सत्यपि अंशात्मकत्वात्तेषां राशीनां पृथगंशशब्दोपादानं व्यर्थं स्यात् ॥
But what is the root of Yadava's dasha (planet period)? He may say: Samarasimha's words, told before, use the word rashi. So Samarasimha's words are the root. The reply: the word rashi means a sign like Aries, and also a heap. Amarasimha says it. 'Rashi has two senses: a heap, and Aries and the rest'. Here the word rashi has come to mean a heap. How? The word amsha means the thirty parts of a sign. If rashi meant a sign like Aries, those signs are made of degrees. So naming the degrees separately would be pointless.
Simple meaning: Balabhadra's reply: in Samarasimha's verse rashi means a heap of degrees, not a zodiac sign. So Yadava's method has no root.
अत एव सर्वग्रहभुक्तांशानेवं संस्थाप्येति पद्यद्वयेन समरसिंहेन भोग्यभागेभ्य एव दशानयनं स्वीयमतांतरेणाभ्यधायि न भोग्यराशिभ्य इति ॥ अमुमेवाभिप्रायं मनस्यभिधाय समरसिंहाभिप्रायज्ञैस्तेजस्सिंहवामनादिभिः साक्षादंशादिग्रहणमेवाकारि ॥
Samarasimha counted only degrees, not signs. Tejahsimha, Vamana and others followed him.
कैश्चिद्राशित्यागोपि ॥ तद्यथा तेजास्सिंहः ॥
Tejahsimha: drop the signs. The planet with fewest degrees gets the first period.
वामनोपि ॥
Vamana: use only the degrees gone of the planets and the lagna.