vimshottari dasha
The Vimshottari Antardasha Table: All 81 Sub-Periods
The Vimshottari cycle is 120 years long and divided among nine lords in a fixed order: Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19, Mercury 17. The same order assigns the nakshatras their lords, Ashwini to the first and onward in threes, which is how the Moon’s nakshatra at birth decides which mahadasha a life opens in.
Each mahadasha is divided again among the same nine lords, in the same order, starting from its own lord. A sub-period — an antardasha, or bhukti — lasts the mahadasha’s years times its own lord’s years, divided by 120. Each antardasha is divided once more into nine pratyantardashas by the same rule, starting from the antardasha’s lord, so a pratyantar lasts the product of three lords’ years divided by 14400. Nothing in any of these lengths depends on a birth; only where the sequence is entered does.
Two rulers are in use for turning the proportion into days. The texts state the lengths in years of twelve thirty-day months, which is why every antardasha comes out in whole days; software usually counts the solar year of 365.2425 days, which is what the dasha calculator uses. Every page in this cluster prints both, because two published dates for one sub-period that disagree by a few weeks are usually two rulers and not an error.
None of these pages forecasts anything. A sub-period’s length and position are the same for everyone; what it means in a chart depends on where its two lords sit, which a table cannot know. For the interpretation of each mahadasha, see Vimshottari dasha explained; for building and reading your own timeline, how to read your dasha. This table in Hindi: विंशोत्तरी अंतर्दशा तालिका.
The 9 × 9 Table, on the Classical Year
Rows are mahadashas, columns antardashas, both in cycle order. Every cell links to its page.