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Mangal Mahadasha, Surya Antardasha
Surya antardasha in Mangal mahadasha runs 4 months 6 days. It is the eighth of the nine and begins 6 years 24 days after the mahadasha starts.
How long it runs
Mangal’s 7 years × Surya’s 6 years ÷ 120
4 months 6 days · 128 days
Shukra antardasha comes before it, and Chandra antardasha after it.
How the two grahas get on
Mangal and Surya are friends to each other. That natural relationship is where reading a Mangal–Surya period starts; where Mangal and Surya sit in your kundli decides what it brings.
Surya antardasha adds
standing, authority and the father
What it touches in life
Mangal–Surya area by area, in plain words, from Parashara’s verses set out below
| Area | What the verses give |
|---|---|
| Work and standing | When it goes well: you gain a good name, recognition, unusual profit in business and an audience with authorities; when it is hard: your ventures fail. |
| Money and property | When it goes well: you gain vehicles and growing wealth. |
| Family | When it goes well: a son is born and harmony fills your family. |
| Health | When it goes well: you enjoy sound health and vigour; when it is hard: you suffer distress, anguish, fever and dysentery. |
For faith and journeys, Parashara’s verses on Mangal–Surya give nothing of their own; there the two grahas’ places in your kundli decide.
What Parashara says
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 54, verses 64–69
Parashara reads Surya’s antardasha in Mangal’s mahadasha by where Surya sits, counted from the lagna and from Mangal, and by what it rules; your kundli shows which line is yours, and though the text speaks of a man, its results apply to anyone.
When it goes well
- When Surya is exalted (in his sign of greatest strength) or in his own sign, or is in a kendra (the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house), a trikona (the 1st, 5th or 9th house) or the 11th house together with the lords of the 10th and the 11th, BPHS gives gains of vehicles, a good name, the birth of a son, growing wealth, harmony in the family, sound health, vigour, recognition from those in power, unusual profits in business, and an audience with those in authority.BPHS 54.64–66
When it is hard
- When Surya is in the 6th, 8th or 12th from Mangal, the lord of the mahadasha, or is joined with malefic grahas (the harsh planets), BPHS warns of bodily distress, anguish, failure in ventures, and possible trouble in the forehead, fever and dysentery.BPHS 54.67–67½
Parashara’s remedy
To regain good health and wealth, BPHS prescribes the worship of Surya in the prescribed manner.
BPHS 54.68–69A caution: When Surya rules your 2nd or 7th house (the maraka houses, which the texts link with danger to life), BPHS warns of fever, danger from snakes and poison, and distress to a son, and asks for care. BPHS 54.68–69
Mangal–Surya for your lagna
What Mangal and Surya are for each lagna, as Parashara lists them, and the two read together
Both are favourable for Mesh (Aries), Singh (Leo), Dhanu (Sagittarius) lagna. Both are hard for Mithun (Gemini), Tula (Libra), Kumbh (Aquarius) lagna, where the period asks for the most care. For Vrishabh (Taurus), Kark (Cancer), Meen (Pisces) lagna one is good and the other hard, so the period is mixed. Where one of the two is neutral, the other decides the lean: towards good for Vrishchik (Scorpio) and towards hard for Kanya (Virgo), Makar (Capricorn).
The labels, from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 34:
- Yogakaraka: the strongest graha a lagna can have: the one Parashara names as bringing yoga, or the one lord of both a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) and a trikona (1st, 5th, 9th) (34.13)
- Benefic, Malefic, Neutral: works for the lagna; brings its harder matters; neither
- Lagna lord: the lagna’s own graha, where the verse calls it neither good nor hard
- Maraka: a killer Parashara names for the lagna, watched for health and longevity; printed alone, or after another label. It is not always the lord of the 2nd or 7th: where it differs, the line under it gives the verse
- · Yoga: one of two grahas he says give yoga together for this lagna
| Lagna | Mangal is (lord of) | Surya is (lord of) | Together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Benefic 1st and 8th | Benefic 5th | Favourable |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Maraka 7th and 12th | Benefic 4th | Mixed |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Malefic 6th and 11th | Malefic 3rd | Hard |
| Kark (Cancer) | Yogakaraka 5th and 10th | Maraka 2nd | Mixed |
| Singh (Leo) | Yogakaraka 4th and 9th | Benefic 1st | Favourable |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Malefic 3rd and 8th | Neutral— gives results by association (34.32) 12th | Leans hard |
| Tula (Libra) | Malefic · Maraka 2nd and 7th | Malefic 11th | Hard |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Neutral 1st and 6th | Yogakaraka— as the verse names it, together with Chandra, the 9th lord (34.35–36) 10th | Leans favourable |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Benefic 5th and 12th | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Budh (34.38) 9th | Favourable |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Malefic · Maraka— lord of the 4th and 11th, not the 2nd or 7th; the verse names it a killer all the same (34.39–40) 4th and 11th | Neutral 8th | Leans hard |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Malefic · Maraka— lord of the 3rd and 10th, not the 2nd or 7th; the verse names it a killer all the same (34.41–42) 3rd and 10th | Maraka 7th | Hard |
| Meen (Pisces) | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Guru (34.44)— also named a killer, though not one who kills on his own (34.44) 2nd and 9th | Malefic 6th | Mixed |
“Together” reads Mangal and Surya side by side: both favourable is Favourable; one favourable and one neutral, Leans favourable; one each way, Mixed; one hard and one neutral, Leans hard; both hard, Hard; both neutral, Placement decides. A Yoga pair is two grahas Parashara names together for that lagna.
Read on a real kundli
One kundli that meets Mangal–Surya at 51, read the way the report reads yours
From the Janam Kundli report
Mangal mahadasha Mixed
Mangal rules your 2nd house and 7th house and sits in your 7th house: this period brings those matters forward — the money at hand, the family, and speech; the spouse, partners, and those one deals with. Mixed — a kendra or trikona and strong in its sign; on the other side: short of Shadbala and in an enemy's sign in the navamsa.
Surya antardasha Opens
In this kundli it runs 8 June 2042 – 14 October 2042, from the age of 51 to 52. Its length here can differ from the one above by a day, because each kundli’s dates round to the day.
Surya: rules your 11th house, sits in your 9th house. It brings income, gains, elder siblings, and friends who help. Favourable — a kendra or trikona, well placed from Mangal, enough Shadbala and vargottama.
Shadbala: the six-fold measure of a graha’s strength the report computes; “short of Shadbala” means below the strength the texts ask of it. Vargottama: in the same rashi in the birth chart and in the navamsa, which strengthens a graha. Navamsa: the ninth-division chart, read for a graha’s inner strength.
Its nine pratyantars
Mangal–Surya divides into nine pratyantars from Surya’s own on. Each length is counted between the dates beside it, and comes out the same in any kundli give or take a day; the dates and readings are this one’s.
| Pratyantar | Length | In this kundli | The report reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surya | 6 days | 8 June 2042 – 14 June 2042 | Opens |
| Chandra | 11 days | 14 June 2042 – 25 June 2042 | Mixed |
| Mangal | 7 days | 25 June 2042 – 2 July 2042 | Mixed |
| Rahu | 20 days | 2 July 2042 – 22 July 2042 | Mixed |
| Guru | 17 days | 22 July 2042 – 8 August 2042 | Care |
| Shani | 20 days | 8 August 2042 – 28 August 2042 | Opens |
| Budh | 18 days | 28 August 2042 – 15 September 2042 | Care |
| Ketu | 7 days | 15 September 2042 – 22 September 2042 | Mixed |
| Shukra | 22 days | 22 September 2042 – 14 October 2042 | Mixed |
The dasha calculator finds your own Mangal–Surya dates free, and the Janam Kundli report reads your antardashas this way, with the pratyantars of the one you are in.
Upay in Mangal–Surya
Suggestions for Surya’s months, which your kundli confirms
For this pair
Parashara gives Mangal–Surya a remedy of its own (BPHS 54.68–69), set out above under “Parashara’s remedy”; it comes first.
Surya’s beej mantra and daan
ॐ ह्रां ह्रीं ह्रौं सः सूर्याय नमः
Daan: wheat and jaggery, on Sunday
Every Surya upay
What helps and what to keep clear of in any Surya period: Surya mahadasha. Its vrat, ratna, stotra and puja: Surya upay.
Surya antardasha in the other mahadashas
Common questions
How long is Mangal mahadasha Surya antardasha?
4 months 6 days (128 days): Mangal’s 7 years × Surya’s 6 years ÷ 120. It begins 6 years 24 days after a Mangal mahadasha starts.
Is Mangal mahadasha Surya antardasha good or bad?
Not in advance: it turns on your lagna and on where Mangal and Surya sit in your kundli. By Parashara’s lists it is strongest for Mesh (Aries), Singh (Leo), Dhanu (Sagittarius) lagna. It is hardest for Mithun (Gemini), Tula (Libra), Kumbh (Aquarius) lagna. By nature the two are friends. On the Tula lagna kundli above, the Janam Kundli report reads it as “Opens”, as its chip above says.
What are the pratyantars of Mangal mahadasha Surya antardasha?
Nine, in the order Surya, Chandra, Mangal, Rahu, Guru, Shani, Budh, Ketu, Shukra. Each is Mangal–Surya’s length × the pratyantar lord’s years ÷ 120, so the longest is Shukra’s, about 22 days, and the shortest Surya’s, about 6 days.
What upay helps in Surya antardasha?
Parashara gives this antardasha a remedy of its own (BPHS 54.68–69), set out above under “Parashara’s remedy”. The Surya beej mantra, Om Hraam Hreem Hraum Sah Suryaya Namah, and a daan of wheat and jaggery on Sunday are the everyday upay for Mangal–Surya, where your kundli shows the need.
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