Antardasha
all 81 periods

Each mahadasha divides into nine antardashas. Here are all 81: how long each runs, the order they come in, and a page for each one.

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Vimshottari dasha: the nine mahadashas of the 120-year cycle, with the years of each

All 81 antardashas

An antardasha runs for the mahadasha lord’s years × the antardasha lord’s years ÷ 120, rounded to the day. Each cell opens its page.

Mahadasha ↓ / antardasha →	Ketu	Venus	Sun	Moon	Mars	Rahu	Jupiter	Saturn	Mercury
Ketu	4m 27d	1y 2m	4m 6d	7m	4m 27d	1y 18d	11m 6d	1y 1m 9d	11m 27d
Venus	1y 2m	3y 4m	1y	1y 8m	1y 2m	3y	2y 8m	3y 2m	2y 10m
Sun	4m 6d	1y	3m 18d	6m	4m 6d	10m 24d	9m 18d	11m 12d	10m 6d
Moon	7m	1y 8m	6m	10m	7m	1y 6m	1y 4m	1y 7m	1y 5m
Mars	4m 27d	1y 2m	4m 6d	7m	4m 27d	1y 18d	11m 6d	1y 1m 9d	11m 27d
Rahu	1y 18d	3y	10m 24d	1y 6m	1y 18d	2y 8m 12d	2y 4m 24d	2y 10m 6d	2y 6m 18d
Jupiter	11m 6d	2y 8m	9m 18d	1y 4m	11m 6d	2y 4m 24d	2y 1m 18d	2y 6m 12d	2y 3m 6d
Saturn	1y 1m 9d	3y 2m	11m 12d	1y 7m	1y 1m 9d	2y 10m 6d	2y 6m 12d	3y 3d	2y 8m 9d
Mercury	11m 27d	2y 10m	10m 6d	1y 5m	11m 27d	2y 6m 18d	2y 3m 6d	2y 8m 9d	2y 4m 27d

In what order

Every mahadasha opens with its own lord’s antardasha and then goes round the cycle from there, in the order Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury. Saturn mahadasha, for one, runs Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter.

How an antardasha is read

Parashara’s way (BPHS chapters 52 to 60), and the way the Janam Kundli report reads yours

The mahadasha sets the theme: the houses its lord rules and sits in come forward for all its years.
The antardasha lord brings its own houses into that theme for its months, the same way.
Count where the antardasha lord sits from the mahadasha lord. In a kendra (one of the four angles of the chart, the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses, where a graha acts with most force) or trikona (the 1st, 5th and 9th houses, the houses of fortune) from it (the 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th or 10th) the two work together; in the 3rd or 11th it grows with effort; in the 6th, 8th or 12th the period is harder, and Parashara’s chapters give it a remedy.
Rahu and Ketu rule no house: read them through the lord of the rashi they sit in.
Each antardasha divides again into nine pratyantars, in the same order from its own lord, for the weeks within it.

Each pair’s page reads it on a real kundli this way, with its nine pratyantars. The dasha calculator finds which one you are in.

What does my running dasha mean for me?Acharya Parashara reads your mahadasha and antardasha with your whole kundli.

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Common questions

What is an antardasha?

A sub-period inside a mahadasha. Each of the nine mahadashas divides into nine antardashas, so a full cycle has 81, and the antardasha lord colours the mahadasha for its length.

How is an antardasha calculated?

Multiply the two grahas’ mahadasha years and divide by 120. Rahu antardasha in Saturn mahadasha is 19 × 18 ÷ 120 = 2.85 years, which is 2 years 10 months 6 days.

What is a pratyantar dasha?

The third level: each antardasha divides into nine pratyantars, starting with its own lord, each its share of the antardasha by the same years ÷ 120. Inside Shani–Rahu, which runs 2 years 10 months 6 days, Rahu’s own pratyantar runs 5 months 4 days.

Which antardasha is the longest, and which the shortest?

The longest is Venus in Venus, 3 years 4 months; the shortest the Sun in the Sun, 3 months 18 days.

Which dasha you are running is a fact about your chart.

It follows from the Moon’s nakshatra at your birth. Enter your birth details and the whole 120-year timeline comes with it, each period read for your chart.

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