Finding the Dashas

Mars may stand in the 3rd, 6th or 11th house from the lagna (rising sign). Then even when blameworthy, it gives half the result in its dasha (planet period). At middle strength it turns good. At full strength it is called very good.

Vamana says: Mars at full strength gives the glory of victory in battle. It gives the post of a chief of justice. The person may even become an army leader.

Mars at middle strength gives a bold, bright nature and victory in battle. It gives a chief's place in running the state. Or a kingdom may even be gained.

Mars at low strength may bring pain in the limbs and a serious illness. It may bring injury to the body and weakness. It may bring bleeding from the mouth.

Mars that has lost strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). It may give disputes, quarrels and fights. It may give great fear. (Our text is unclear here: one word in the list reads 'monkey'.)

Mercury at full strength brings money through good sense. It brings rule and comfort. It brings great wealth earned by one's own hands. It brings joy with one's own people and servants.

Mercury at middle strength, in its dasha (planet period), brings growth of good sense. It brings gain of sons and wealth. It brings joy in learning and comfort with one's own people. It gives comfort in many ways.

When Mercury is blameworthy in its period, the person may meet hardship. Comfort, strength and money may be lost. Fame may fade. There may be fear, and harsh trouble over money. There may be enmity with one's own people and servants.

A dagdha (set near the Sun or otherwise hurt) Mercury may bring enmity within one's own community. It may bring much sharp sorrow and little comfort among people. Above all, it may bring loss of learning and money, poor judgment and a thin body.

Leave out the 6th, 8th and 12th houses [from the lagna (rising sign)]. Mercury in any other house, even when blameworthy, gives half the result in its dasha (planet period). At middle strength it turns good. At full strength it is called very good.

Vamana says: Mercury at full strength brings comfort and wealth through service. It brings gain of money and great fame. Through one's own wits, it brings gain of a kingdom.

Mercury at middle strength brings success in right living. It brings work and a rise beyond compare. It gives money through reading and writing.

Mercury that has lost strength may bring moving from land to land. It may bring injury and loss among kin and family. It may bring bonds through faulty thinking.

Mercury at low strength may bring loss of honour and great hardship. It may bring loss of money and great fear. It may bring quarrels at home and a bad name.

Jupiter with strength brings riches and honour from the king. It brings a rise in glow and the gain of a kingdom. It brings many joys, rich in gold and clothes.

When Jupiter is at middle strength in its own period, the person gains money through trade. The person gains respect and friendship with kings. There is joy from sons and wife. The person gains friends, clothes and right living.

Jupiter that has lost strength may bring a body troubled by poverty and sorrow. It may bring loss of right living and money. It may bring fear from enemies. It may bring quarrels with wife, sons and friends. It spoils everything.

A dagdha (set near the Sun or otherwise hurt) Jupiter may bring fear and pain from bad people. It may bring loss of money and right living. It may bring fear of enemies or of the king. It may bring loss of comfort and quarrels with friends and sons.

Jupiter may stand in any house except the 6th, 8th and 12th from the lagna (rising sign). Then even when blameworthy, it gives half the result in its dasha (planet period). At middle strength it turns good. At full strength it is called very good.

Vamana says: Jupiter with great strength gives rule over a region and glow. It may even give kingship. It gives money, riches and good health.

Jupiter at middle strength gives mastery of knowledge and the sciences. It gives the role of a teacher and comfort from the king. It gives comfort and authority in the state.

Jupiter at low strength may give illness in the body and pain of mind. It may give poverty and loss of right living. It may give defeat and fear of enemies.

Jupiter that has lost strength in the year may bring loss of money and loss of place. Worry and illness may arise. It may bring toothache.

In the period of Venus at full strength, the person gets a kingdom, a wife, comfort and joy. Venus gives money, gold and honour from the king. It brings the birth of a son and the company of friends.

Venus at middle strength brings money and comfort through the wife's side. It brings sweet food, drink, clothes and beautiful women. It brings gain of cows, horses, bright clothes and wealth.

Venus that has lost strength may make the person wander here and there. It may bring loss of knowledge, fame and money. It may bring trouble through brothers, friends, sons and women. It may bring great hardship.

When Venus is dagdha (set near the Sun or otherwise hurt), the person may face harm to sons and fear of illness. Hardship may come, with loss of comfort and money. There may be quarrels with one's own people. There may be much fear about friends, wife and others.

Leave out the 12th, 8th and 6th houses from the lagna (rising sign). In the other houses, Venus gives half the result, even when blameworthy. At middle strength it is called good. At full strength it gives very good results.

Vamana says: Venus at full strength gives these results in its dasha (planet period). It gives royal wealth and a wife. It gives the joy of sons, friends and one's own things.

Venus at middle strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). The person may become a chief of justice and know all the sciences. Great wealth comes from one's own side.

Venus at small strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). There may be wandering and service without reward. There may be unhappiness from the wife's side.

Venus that has lost strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). There may be grief over a son and loss of home. There may be danger to life on a journey. Money may be lost.

Saturn at full strength gives rule over low people. It gives gain of elephants and houses. It gives a good place such as a fort, and comfort. It gives new clothes and the company of other men's wives.

Saturn at middle strength gives charge of guarding donkeys, camels, treasure, forts and the like. It may also bring troubles and a harsh nature. It may bring loss of comfort and money, and quarrels with one's own people.

Saturn that has lost strength may bring loss of money, fear of thieves and fear of enemies. It may bring enmity with one's own people and friends. When its dasha (planet period) begins, there is no comfort at all.

When Saturn has dagdha (set near the Sun or otherwise hurt) strength, the body may burn with the pain of parting. There may be loss of friends and money. There may be danger to life. There may be deep sorrow through wife and sons.

Saturn may stand in the 3rd, 6th or 11th house from the lagna (rising sign). Then even when blameworthy, it gives half the result in its dasha (planet period). At middle strength it turns good. At full strength it is called very good.

Vamana says: Saturn at full strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). It gives travel and rule over a land. It gives lordship over foreign lands.

Saturn at middle strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). It gives care of treasure and of donkeys and camels. It gives the guarding of forts, roads and the like.

Saturn at low strength gives these results in its own dasha (planet period). There may be parting, quarrels and illness. (Our text is unclear here: a phrase that seems to speak of trouble from wind.)

Saturn may bring service to low people and worry at home. Wealth may be lost to thieves. Saturn gives these results in his own dasha (planet period) when his strength is lost. This ends Saturn.

The dasha (planet period) of the lagna (rising sign) gives results equal to its lord's results. Here is one more point. In a chara rashi (moving sign) its results are middling, good and low. In an ubhaya rashi (dual sign), take the reverse.

The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 21.45, with our English meaning there.

Also in the Hayanottama: In a chara rashi (moving sign), [the lagna (rising sign) dasha (planet period)] is good in the first third. It is middling in the second third and low in the third. In a sthira rashi (fixed sign) it is bad in the first third. It is good in the second and even in the third.

In a dual sign it is bad in the first third. It is middling in the second third and good in the third. The wise have said this for the dasha (planet period) of the lagna (rising sign). Its results come from its own lord, in these three kinds.

The special results of the lagna's dasha (planet period), in the Hillaja. The same verse is in Tajika Nilakanthi 21.5, with our English meaning there.

Money comes with difficulty. There is friendship with a low person and service to him. The mind becomes upset. This is the dasha (planet period) from a middling lagna (rising sign). (Our text is unclear here: one word before 'middling' does not fit.)

When the lagna (rising sign) has lost strength, its dasha (planet period) brings these results. There may be travel abroad and trouble. There may be poor judgement, quarrels and pain. There may also be great loss.

In the dasha (planet period) of a harsh lagna (rising sign), comfort may be small and money may be spent. There may be pain in the body. Likewise, the mother's brother may have trouble.

If its lord, its friends or good planets give drishti (a planet's look) to the lagna (rising sign), the result is middling. This ends the results of the lagna's dasha (planet period).

Next, Tejahsimha says this. A planet's dasha (planet period) gives results like its results as year lord. What was said before about the planets as year lord holds in their own dashas. It is best, middling or low, by strength. So first study the planet's strength well. This ends the results of the planets' dashas.

Take the length of the dasha (planet period) as the length of the year. By the method told, work out the antardasha (sub-period). Do it by the patyamsha (degrees left after subtracting) found before. The dasha lord's own antardasha comes first. All the others follow in that order.

This is the meaning. Earlier, the patyamsha (degrees left after subtracting) were found from the least degrees. Take the dasha (planet period) length, put in the place of the year. Divide it by the total of the patyamsha. The result is the dhruvaka (fixed multiplier) for the antardasha (sub-period), in days and so on. Multiply each planet's patyamsha by it, by gomutrika (cross-wise multiplication), as before. Carry by sixty into each higher place. That gives the planet's antardasha length in days and so on.

First comes the antardasha (sub-period) of the main dasha's own lord. Then come the next antardashas in the written order. After the planet with the most degrees, go on again by least degrees. Continue up to the planet just before the main dasha lord.

Here is an example. Venus's main dasha (planet period) is 92 days 42 ghatika (24-minute unit) 17 pala (24-second unit). Take this as the length of the year. Divide it by the total of all patyamsha (degrees left after subtracting), 28;16;31, as before. The result is the dhruvaka (fixed multiplier) for every planet's antardasha (sub-period): 3;12;28;30 in days and so on. Multiply Venus's patyamsha, 27;7, by it. Carry by sixty upward. In Venus's dasha, Venus's antardasha comes to 22;51;13;26 in days and so on. Work out all the other antardashas the same way.