Vimshottari Dasha
Vimshottari allots a hundred and twenty years among the nine grahas, and the period in force at any moment is the one that colours everything else in the chart. The sequence is counted from the Moon's nakshatra at birth.
The order agrees with nakshatras.json, which opens its ruler sequence at Ashvini with Ketu; because the nine lords repeat every nine nakshatras, Ashvini, Magha and Mula are all Ketu, and a native born in any of them begins in the Ketu period. The 120 years are the scheme's full term, not a lifespan prediction. The tradition counts three levels below the period in ordinary use (antardasha, pratyantardasha, sookshma).
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- VimshottariVimsottari Dasathe 120-year dashaNakshatra dasha
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Dasha
- Sanskrit
- विंशोत्तरी दशा
- English
- the 120-year planetary period system
- Meaning
Vimshottari allots a hundred and twenty years among the nine grahas, and the period in force at any moment is the one that colours everything else in the chart. The sequence is counted from the Moon's nakshatra at birth, so the balance of the first period depends on how far the Moon had travelled through its nakshatra; each period is then divided into sub-periods (antardasha or bhukti) in the same order beginning with the period lord, and those again into pratyantardashas.
Details
- Period Years
- 120
- Use
The main dasha system of the tradition and the one nearly every reading uses: it divides the life into nine planetary periods, in the order Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, whose lengths are 7, 20, 6, 10, 7, 18, 16, 19 and 17 years.
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