Antardasha Timeline
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Antardasha Timeline — how the 120-year Vimshottari cycle is divided, which graha runs when, and how long each period lasts.
0What this is
An antardasha is the period inside the mahadasha — the second graha, which colours what the first one is doing. A Jupiter antardasha inside a Saturn mahadasha is not a Jupiter period; it is Saturn's period with Jupiter's hand on it.
How it is worked out
The arithmetic is proportion, not a table. Each graha's share of a period is its own years divided by 120, times the length of the period it sits inside. Venus inside Saturn: 20 ÷ 120 × 19 years = about 3.2 years. The nine antardashas of a mahadasha always run in the same order as the mahadashas themselves, starting from the mahadasha lord's own.
The nine periods, in order
They always run in this order and always add to 120 years.
- Ketu
- 7 years — detachment, past skill and research
- Venus
- 20 years — marriage, comfort, art and vehicles
- Sun
- 6 years — soul, father, authority and confidence
- Moon
- 10 years — mind, mother and emotional comfort
- Mars
- 7 years — energy, courage, siblings and land
- Rahu
- 18 years — ambition, foreign matters and amplification
- Jupiter
- 16 years — wisdom, wealth, children and teachers
- Saturn
- 19 years — discipline, delay, labour and longevity
- Mercury
- 17 years — speech, analysis, trade and learning
If you want to act on this
A remedy in jyotish is an act, not a purchase — a fast, a mantra, a donation on the right weekday. Where a formal ritual is called for, these are the three that apply: a puja performed on your behalf, a chadhawa offered at the temple, or an abhimantrit article energised with the mantra of the planet involved.
Not sure what this means for your own chart?
Ask the astrologer — it reads your chart, not a general rule, and answers in plain words.
Common questions
- How many years is the full Vimshottari cycle?
- 120 years, divided between the nine grahas — from 6 years for the Sun to 20 for Venus.
- What decides which dasha you are born in?
- The nakshatra the Moon occupied at birth — not the Sun sign and not the ascendant.
- What does the Antardasha Timeline chapter contain?
- An antardasha is the period inside the mahadasha — the second graha, which colours what the first one is doing. A Jupiter antardasha inside a Saturn mahadasha is not a Jupiter period; it is Saturn's period with Jupiter's hand on it.