SECTION – VI
THE DASAS AND THEIR EFFECTS
Sloka 1: The Avastthas or conditions of a planet are of nine kinds, viz., (1) Deepta-blazing when he is in his exaltation, (2) stimita-gratified or satisfied when he is in his own house (3) Muditahappy when he is in a dear friend’s house (5) Heena deficient when he is quartered in a neutral’s house (6) Duhkha-dejected when he is in an enemy’s house (7) Vikla-failing when he is associated with a malefic (8) Khala-base when he is vanquished in war and (9) Kopa-angry when he is eclipsed by the Sun’s rays.
Sloka 2: Since the fruits of past Karma resulting from either good or bad actions are known through the Dasas and Bhuktis of planets, it is essential that the Dasas of the planets should be sub-divided and the several effects of such sub-divisions should be known in order that one may obtain the required happiness by the performance of Shantis to overcome the evil.
Sloka 3: The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu and Venus are in their order the lords of the Dasa period of years represented by the numbers 6, 10, 7, 18, 16, 19, 17, 7 and 20 respectively. The particular Dasa that starts in a nativity is thus obtained : count from Krittika till the natal star inclusive and divide the result by 9. The remainder will indicate the lord of the Dasa counted from the Sun onwards.
Sloka 4: Find the number of Ghatikas, etc., still to pass of the asterism at birth, divide the same by the total Ghatikas taken by the Moon to pass through that art. Multiply this fraction by the appropriate Dasa-years mentioned in the previous Sloka. The quotient will be the number of years still to pass in that Dasa. The remainder when multiplied by 12 and 30 will give the months and days required.
Sloka 5 – 5 ½: Multiply the Dasa years of a planet by the Dasa years of the other planet whose Bhukti or sub-period is required. The product will be in 2 or 3 digits. The number indicated by the first or first two digits as the case may be will be the number of months contained in the Bhukti, and the last digit multiplied by 3 will be the days to be added, etc. thus should the period of all the Bhktis in the several Dasas be calculated. Convert the Bhukti period into days and multiply the same by the number indicating the Dasa years of a planet. Take a moiety of the product. This will signify the (Vidasa) or (Antara) of the planet in terms of Ghatikas, etc., and this when divided by 60 will indicate the period in days. Similarly should the (Sukshmadasa), etc., be calculated, but there is this peculiarity, i.e., the numbers each below the other in their order will signify the sub-period in days, Ghatikas and Vighatikas.
Thus, Mercury’s Bhukti period in Saturn’s Dasa is obtained by multiplying 17×19. The product is 323 which means 32 months and 9 days.
Similarly to find out the sub-period of the Moon-Chandrantara- in the above Mercury’s Bhukti, we proceed thus:
Convert the 32 months and 9 days (the period of the Bhukti) into days, thus: 32×30+9 or 969. As the Moon’s Dasa period is 10 years, this has to be multiplied by 10 and a half of the product is to be taken = 969 x 10 x ½ or 4845. This will denote the number in Ghatikas of Moon’s Antara. This when converted into days will be = 4845 – 60 or 80 days 45 Ghatikas.
Slokas 5 ½ – 6 ½ : The Sun’s Dasa will, if the Sun be auspicious to the native, give during his period sons, Intelligence, Wisdom, good status, knowledge, wealth, fame, valour, happiness and divine favour. If the sun be inauspicious, the native will suffer intense hardships; all his efforts will become useless; there will be much waste of money. He will suffer from disease and there will be trouble from the enemy, royal displeasure, ill-health to father and similar other happenings.
Slokas 6 ½ – 7 ½: When the moon is auspicious, the mother’s prosperity and the building of tanks and the like may be expected. The native will get lands, gardens, houses, the blessings of good Brahmins, wealth, prosperity and joyrides. If the moon be unfavourable, the native will suffer from want of food, will be miserly, will become devois of pleasure and wealth, suffer diseases, will be lacking in wisdom, will be censured, lose his mother, will often get angry and suffer from fevers like typhoid.
Slokas 7 ½ – 8 ½: The Dasa of Mars when Mars is auspicious will bring to the native lands, desired objects, knowledge clearness of mind, prowess, wealth, destruction of enemies, advent of brothers. If Mars be inauspicious, there will be distress to brothers, misunderstandings, troubles through lands, danger from fire, wounds, decay of eyesight and the like, trouble from Government, misunderstandings with good people, shortcuts and diseases.
Sloka 8 ½ – 9 ½: If mercury be auspicious, he will give during the Dasa clothing, endless wealth, corn, status, prosperity, happiness, house, relations, success and fulfillment of cherished desires and objects. If he be inauspicious, the native will go to be foreign country ; there will be anger, loss of relations, intellectual diminution, trouble from the merchant class, misunderstandings, loss of lands and money and other calamities.
Sloka 9 ½ – 10 ½: Jupiter, if auspicious, makes the native the headman of a big village, blesses him with children, wealth and prosperity. The native will be a mine of all virtues, will have many dependants, horses, joyrides and other comforts. If Jupiter be unfavourable, there will be royal displeasure, mental worry, diseases, loss of courage, lack of corn, lack of money, trouble from Brahmisn, displeasure of the father, trouble for proper meals and consumption.
