โหราศาสตร์พระเวท(ภารตะ)

Chapter 22

Kalachakra dasa

1. (A) Three nakshatras from Aswini, viz. Aswini, Bharani and Krittika comprise of 12 quarters. Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer are the four navamsa of Aswini. Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio will be the four navamsa of Bharani. Sagittarius Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces will be the four navamsas of Krittika. In this order (Apasavya or Apradakhina order) divide the three nakshatras by the 12 navamsas.

(B) There will be 12 navamsa of three nakshatras from Rohini viz., Rohlni, Mrigasira and Aridra counting them in reverse order from Scorpio i.e. Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, Leo, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Sagittarius, divide them by the 12 navamsas. Scorpio will be the navamsa of the first quarter of Rohini, Libra will be the navamsa of 2nd quarter of Rohini and so on ultimately finding that in this order Sagittarius will be the navamsa of the fourth quarter of Aridra. (This is known as Savya—reverse, Apradakhina or anticlockwise order).

2. These are the trends of nakshatras reckoned in their order (from Aswini) to be distinguished as Apasavya and Savya. The years assigned to a planet constitute the dasa period of the sign owned by that planet. This is the peculiarity in the' Kalachakra system, say the wise.

3. The Sun's dasa period is 5 years (Leo is the sign owned by the Sun, therefore dasa period of Leo will be 5 years). The dasa period of the Moon is 21 years (the dasa of Cancer owned by the Moon will be the same). The dasa of Mars will be of 7 years (the dasa of Aries and Scorpio will be the same). The dasa of Mercury will be 9 years (the dasa period of Gemini and Virgo owned by Mercury will be the same). The dasa of Jupiter will be 10 years (the dasa of Sagittarius and Pisces owned by Jupiter will be the same). The dasa of Venus will be of 16 years (the dasa period of Taurus and Libra owned by Venus will be the same). The dasa of Saturn will be of 4 years (the dasa period of Capricorn and Aquarius owned by Saturn will be the same). The effects of kalachakra dasa are to be declared on the basis of the sign whose dasa be in progress and its lord.

4. In this kalachakra system consisting of dasas. An tar dasas, etc., I shall now expound the formula for the several nakshatra padas from Aswini onwards. Every such formula consists of nine syllables indicating by their number (as per katapayadi memories) the particular rasyapaharas composing the dasa of the nakshatra pada under consideration and consequently by total life period appertaining thereto by means of the years allotted to the several owners of the signs.

5. For those born in the first pada of Aswini the following will be the 9 dasas (1) Aries-Mars (2) Taurus-Venus (3) Gemini-Mercury (4) Cancer-Moon (5) Leo-Sun, (6) Virgo-Mercury (7) Libra-Venus (8) Scorpio-Mars and (9) Sagittarius-Jupiter.

For those born in the 2nd pada of Aswini, the following will be the 9 dasas (1) Capricorn-Saturn (2) Aquarius-Saturn (3) Pisces-Jupiter (4) Scorpio-Mars (5) Libra-Venus (6) Virgo-Mercury (7) Cancer-Moon (8) Leo-Sun and (9) Gemini-Mercury.

For those born in the third pada of Aswini, the 9 dasas will be as follows — (1) Taurus-Venus (2) Aries-Mars (3) Pisces-Jupiter (4) Aquarius-Saturn (5) Capricorn-Saturn (6) Sagittarius-Jupiter (7) Aries-Mars (8) Taurus-Venus and (9) Gemini-Mercury.

For those born in the 4th pada of Aswlni the 9 dasas will be as follow (1) Cancer-Moon (2) Leo-Sun (3) Virgo-Mercury (4) Libra-Venus (5) Scorpio-Mars (6) Sagittarius-Jupiter (7) Capricorn-Saturn (8) Aquarius-Saturn and (9) Pisces-Jupiter.

6. For those born in the first pada of Bharanl the 9 dasas will be as follow (1) Scorpio-Mars (2) Libra-Venus (3) Virgo-Mercury (4) Cancer-Moon (5) Leo-Sun (6) Gemini-Mercury (7) Taurus-Venus (8) Aries-Mars and (9) Pisces-Jupiter.

For those born in the 2nd pada of Bharani, the 9 dasas will be as follow (1) Aquarius-Saturn (2) Capricorn-Saturn (3) Sagittarius-Jupiter (4) Aries-Mars (5) Taurus-Venus (6) Gemini-Mercury (7) Cancer-Moon (8) Leo-Sun and (9) Virgo-Mercury.

For those born in the 3rd pada of Bharani, the 9 dasas will be (1) Libra-Venus (2) Scorpio-Mai's (3) Sagittarius-Jupiter (4) Capricorn-Saturn (5) Aquarius-Saturn (6) Pisces-Jupiter (7) Scorpio-Mars (8) Libra-Venus and (9) Sagittarius-Jupiter.

For those born in 4th pada of Bharani the 9 dasas will be in the following order (1) Cancer-Moon (2) Leo-Sun (3) Gemini-Mercury (4) Taurus-Venus (5) Aries-Mars (6) Pisces-Jupiter (7) Aquarius-Saturn (8) Capricorn-Saturn and (9) Sagittarius-Jupiter.

7. The formula for Aswini and Bharani are described above. The four formulas given for the four padas of Aswini will also respectively apply to the four padas of Krittika in the Apasavya pradakshina triad. Formulas for Rohini and Mrigasira in the Savya triad are stafed in the next two verses and the four formulas given for the four padas of Mrigasira should also be used again for the four padas of Aridra.

8. For those born In the first pada of Rohini the 9 dasas will be in the following order (1) Sagittarius-Jupiter (2) Capricorn-Saturn (3) Aquarius-Saturn (4) Pisces-Jupiter (5) Aries-Mars (6) Taurus-Venus (7) Gemini-Mercury (8) Leo-Sun (9) Cancer-Moon.

For the 2nd pada of Rohinl the order of 9 dasas will be as follows (1) Virgo-Mercury (2) Libra-Venus (3) Scorpio-Mars (4) Pisces-Jupiter (5) Aquarius-Saturn (6) Capricorn-Saturn (7) Sagittarius-Jupiter (8) Scorpio-Mars and (9) Libra-Venus.

For those born in the 3rd pada of Rohini, the order of the 9 dasas will be (1) Virgo-Mercury (2) Leo-Sun (3) Cancer-Moon (4) Gemini-Mercury (5) Taurus-Venus (6) Aries-Mars (7) Sagittarius-Jupiter (8) Capricorn-Saturn (9) Aquarius-Saturn.

For those born in the 4th pada of Rohini, the order of the 9 dasas will be (1) Pisces-Jupiter (2) Aries-Mars (3) Taurus-Venus (4) Gemini-Mercury (5) Leo-Sun (6) Cancer-Moon (7) Virgo-Mercury (8) Libra-Venus (9) Scorpio-Mars.

9. For those born in the first pada of Mrigasira the order of the 9 dasas will be (1) Pisces-Jupiter (2) Aquarius-Saturn (3) Capricorn-Saturn (4) Sagittarius-Jupiter (5) Scorpio-Mars (6) Libra-Venus (7) Virgo-Mercury (8) Leo-Sun and (9) Cancer-Moon.

For the 2nd pada of Mrigasira the 9 dasas will be as follow (1) Gemini-Mercury (2) Taurus-Venus (3) Aries-Mars (4) Sagittarius-Jupiter (5) Capricorn-Saturn (6) Aquarius-Saturn (7) Pisces-Jupiter (8) Aries-Mars and (9) Taurus-Venus.

For the 3rd pada of Mrigasira the 9 dasas will be in the following order— (1) Gemini-Mercury (2) Leo-Sun (3) Cancer-Moon (4) Virgo-Mercury (5) Libra-Venus (6) Scorpio-Mars (7) Pisces-Jupiter (8) Aquarius-Saturn (9) Capricorn-Saturn.

For the 4th pada of Mrigasira the order of the 9 dasas will be as follow — (1) Sagittarius-Jupiter (2) Scorpio-Mars (3) Libra-Venus (4) Virgo-Mercury (5) Leo-Sun (6) Cancer-Moon (7) Gemini-Mercury (8) Taurus-Venus and (9) Aries-Mars.

Described an order of dasas for the 4 padas of Aswini, BHarani, Rohini and Mrigasira, there are In all 27 nakshatras. For the remaining 23 nakshatras (each has four padas) the order of their dasas will be the same as for the above four nakshatras as explained below:—

(a) The order of the dasas of the four padas of Krittika. Punarvasu, Ashlesha, Hasta, Swati, Moola, Uttarashada, Poorvabhadra and Revati will be the same as for Aswini.

(b) The order of the dasas of the four padas of Pushyami, Chittra, Poorvashada, Uttarabhadra will be the same as for Bharani.

(c) The order of the dasas of the four padas of Magha, Visakha and Sravana will be the same as for Rohinl.

(d) The order of the dasas of the four padas of Aridra, Poorva-phalguni, Uttaraphalguni, Anuradha, Jyestha, Dhanishta and Shatabhisha will be the same as for Mrigasira.

10. The initial Mahadasha of a life belongs to the lord of the sign owning the nakshatra pada occupied by the Moon at the time of birth, being so much of the sign Mahadasha as corresponds to the Ghatlkas that yet remain of the nakshatra pada and the order of Mahadashas follows the natural order of the nakshatra pada reckoned from the aforesaid one. This is the opinion, say the sages, held by some learneds in Astrology.

11. There are number of formulas each composed of a number of mnemonic syllables, refering to the several nakshatra padas beginning with the first pada of Aswini and giving signs in a certain order. It is with reference to the order of sign in these formulas that the rasi Mahadashas of which a life is to consist should be determined. The Vakyakrama, men of one school say, should be adhered to.

12. In the order of sign Vakyakrama, the function at the end of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces give rise to (1) Manduka gati, (2) Aswa or Turaga gati and (3) Simhavalokana respectively and the dasas of those intervals cause woeful effects.

13. The sub-period of any of the planets constituting a Mahadasha is thus obtained. Find out the mnemonic syllable (out of the nine syllables) composing a formula whose sub-period is wanted and find out the owner of the sign signified by that syllable. Multiply the number of years assigned to this planet by the number of years fixed for the planet whose Mahadasha is under consideration and divide the product by the total of years constituting the entire Ayus of the formula chakra. The quotient in years etc., will represent the sub-period required.

14. The total number of years indicated by the Sun of nine mnemonical syllables of any formula represent the number In years of Parama Ayus for that formula. Thus the Parama Ayus in years for the 12 Rasiamsas reckoned from Aries in an Apasavya Chakra will be 100, 85, 83, 86 repeated thrice while those for the 12 Rasiamsas reckoned from Scorpio in a Savya Chakra will be the same but in the reverse order, that is 86, 83, 85 and 100 repeated thrice.

Utpanna, Adhana and Kshema Mahadashas

15. Whatever effects have been declared by me in the case of several Mahadashas (dasas), the same should be stated by wise astrologer in the cases of these dasas also.

16. Which is the 5th nakshatra from the Janma nakshatra? The Mahadasha coming from such counting is known as Utpanna Mahadasha. Count the 8th nakshatra from the Janma nakshatra. The Mahadasha commencing from this nakshatra is known as Adhana dasa. Similarly the dasa commencing from the 4th nakshatra from the Janma nakshatra is known as Kshema dasa.

If all, these three dasas operate at the same time (year, month.etc.), that period may cause the death of the native. The third dasa for the Alpayu class, the 5th dasa for the Madhyayu class and the 7th dasa for Deerghayu class are considered as maraka dasas (death inflicting dasas).

Nisarga dasa

17. The years of dasa allotted in Naisargika dasa to the various planets are as follows—The Moon 1 Year, Mars 2 Years, Mercury 9 years, Venus 20 years, Jupiter 18 years, the Sun 20 years, Saturn 50 years. According to Yavanas the Lagna dasa Is included in the 50 years of Saturn dasa. This is not accepted by others. A well placed planet in a nativity produces favourable effects while the effects of the one adversely placed will not be auspicious. The dasas play their part in the order given here according to the natural strength of the planets concerned.

Amsa dasa

18. Convert the rasi, degree and minutes into minutes. Divide that by 2400. The remainder indicates the Ayush kala. yielded by the planet. Divide these Ayuskalas by 200. The quotient will represent the number of years. Multiply the remainder by 12 and divide the product by 200. The quotient = months. The remainder should be multiplied by 30 and the product should be divided by 200. Quotient = days. This is the view of Satyacharya. If a planet is in his sign of exaltation or retrograde the years, months and days yielded by him should be trebled. If the planet be in his own navamsa, decanate or Vargottama the years, months and days yielded by him should be doubled. If the planet be in his sign of debilitation or eclipsed, the years, months and days yielded by him should be reduced to half. But this procedure of reduction of the dasa period of eclipsed planets does not apply to Venus and Saturn.

19. When malefic planets occupy the 6 houses counted backwards from the 12th, the whole, a half, a third, a fourth, a fifth and sixth respectively of their Ayurdaya is lost. When benefic planets occupy such positions, the loss is half of that incured in the case of malefic ones. When several planets are in a house, only the strongest of them causes a reduction in Ayurdaya. All planets except Mars lose a third of their Ayurdaya when in inimical houses. The number of years contributed by the Lagna according to Satyacharya's view corresponds to the number of navamsas that have risen. Even if the Lagna be strong or of medium strength, the same rule holds.

20. The rule of Satyacharya is prefered (to that laid down by Maya or Jeevasarman). But some make the process inconsistent and unwarantable by a series of multiplications. The dictim of Acharyas (Satya and others) is the following.

(1) When several multiplications crop up, only one that is the niftiest, to be gone through.

For instance when a planet is in his own house, and in his exaltation and in retrograde motion, the Ayurdaya is not to be doubled first and then the result trebled and the second result further trebled. According to the rule, the Ayurdaya should be trebled once for all.

(2) Again, when there are several reductions applicable, only one, that the greatest should be made.

For instance a planet may be in an inimical sign and may be eclipsed by the Sun, it is enough if the reduction by half i.e. Astangata reduction be made.

(this verse is from Brihat Jataka Chapter 13).

Pindayur Dam

21. If the Sun and other planets are in their deep exaltation, the number Pindayurdaya Year allotted them are as follows — The Sun 19, The Moon 25, Mars 15, Mercury 12, Jupiter 15, Venus 21, and Saturn 20. All the reductions should be gone through as before. When a malefic planet is posited in the lagna, take only the degrees, minutes etc., indicating the lagna leaving out the signs. Multiply the total ayus by this and divide by 300. The whole Ayurdaya should be reduced by this result. If the lagna be aspected by a benefic, the period to be reduced will be only half of the above result. So say those well versed in Ayurdaya system.

22. In the Pindayurdaya system when Amsa (lagna navamsa) is stronger the lagna ayus (or lagna dasa) corresponds to the lagna navamsa. When lagna (sign) is strong, the number of years for lagna corresponds to the number signified by the sign etc., counted frorn Aries and not the lagna navamsa.

23. The years assigned to the several planets in verse 21 are to be adopted in full when they are in exaltation. When a planet is in his point of debilitation, the period assigned to him is reduced by half; when he occupies an intermediate position, the reduction is to be proportionate, say the wise.

24. The Pindayurdaya system is advocated as the best by Manitha, Chanakya, Maya and others. But Satyacharya has pronounced this method to be faulty and Varahamihira has also made similar pronouncement.

25. Jeevasharma lays down in according with his own doctrine that the maximum period of life given by each planet from the Sun onwards is 1/7th of the maximum aggregate period (120 years and 5 days). In this Ayurdaya also all the reductions are enjoined. The lagna Ayur should be calculated in the same way as in the other system.

26. The full period of life in the case of men has been declared as 120 years (12 x 10) by some. There are others who have stated that the full period will be the time taken by Saturn to make 3 complete revoluation (in his orbit). There is a third school according to which the full life period of man is the time taken by the Moon for making 1000 revolutions. But we are of the opinion that the full period of man's life in this kaliyuga is only 100 years as stated in the Vedas.

27. Of the lagna. the Sun and the Moon whichever is strongest will have his dasa first. Then will come the dasa of the planet in kendra and other position. When several occupy any one these positions the preference will be given to the planet who predominates in strength. When they happen to be equal in strength, that who gives longer period, in years of Ayurdaya will have his turn first. When there is equality even in regard to the number of years of Ayurdaya of the planets, that who rises first after being eclipsed by the Sun, gets his dasa prior to others.

If such planets should, however, chance to have equal strength, equal Ayurdaya and equal rising after their conjunction with the Sun. then the planet which is anterior in the general order of precedence among the significations would rule the dasa in question, and this general order of procedure is usually taken to the (1) the lagna, (2) the Sun. (3) the Moon, (4) Mars, (5) Mercury, (6) Jupiter, (7) Venus and (8) Saturn.

And the strength of any planet for this purpose is obtained by multiplying his position by the distance of the planet from his nearest Bhava-Sahdhi and dividing the product by the distance between the Bhavamsa and one of its Sandhis.

28. Amsayurdaya is to be calculated upon the predominance in strength of the lagna. Pindayurdaya upon the Sun's superiority in strength and Naisargikayurdaya when the Moon's power is strongest. We shall now state what should be done when the three (lagna, the Sun and the Moon) are of equal strength.

29. Add the three Ayurdays and divide the sum by 3. The quotient will be the Ayurdaya required. If only two of them are strong, add the two Ayurdayas and take half the result. When the three planets are all weak, adopt the method advocated by Jeevasharma for finding out the Ayurdaya.

30. Kalachkra dasa system has to be resorted to only when the lord of the navamsa occupied by the Moon is strong. The dasa calculation as per nakshatra method is always considered as the best.

31. The full period of life in the case of man and elephant is given as 120 years and 5 days while in horses it is 32 years. It is 25 years in the case of asses and camels and 24 for bulls and buffaloes. Twelve years are allotted for dogs and 16 years for sheep and like.

32. This Ayus span of life has been declared by wise men with respect to only those who are engaged in the practice of various actions, who keep their senses under control, who eat wholesome diet, who are devoted to the Vedic class and the gods and who preserve the landmark of character and conduct peculiar to their high family.

Notes — This chapter is based entirely on the translation of this chapter of Phaladeepika by Shri V. Subrahmanya Sastri.

Thus ends the twenty second chapter on "Kalachakra Dasa etc" in Phaladeepika composed by Mantreswara.