Saturn Mahadasha, Sun Antardasha (Shani–Surya)

The Sun antardasha is the fifth of the nine sub-periods inside the Saturn mahadasha. 19 × 6 ÷ 120 makes the Saturn–Sun sub-period 11 months 12 days on the classical year of twelve thirty-day months, which is how the texts state it, or 347 days on the solar year of 365.2425 days that the dasha calculator uses.

The Sun’s turn in the Saturn mahadasha comes only after Saturn, Mercury, Ketu and Venus have run, which takes 9 years 11 months 21 days. When the Saturn–Sun sub-period gives way to Saturn–Moon, 8 years 27 days of the Saturn mahadasha remains.

The Sun’s 6 years make every Sun antardasha 6/120 of the mahadasha containing it, so inside Saturn’s 19 years the Saturn–Sun sub-period is the shortest of the nine.

The Nine Pratyantardashas of Saturn–Sun

A pratyantardasha of Saturn–Sun is 19 × 6 × its own lord’s years ÷ 14,400, and the nine run in cycle order starting from the Sun. Venus’s is the longest inside Saturn–Sun at 57 days and the Sun’s the shortest at 17 days, on the classical year and rounded to the day.

How Saturn and the Sun Stand to Each Other

On the natural friendship table, Saturn and the Sun each count the other an enemy. The Saturn–Sunrelationship is mutual, so it reads the same from either lord.

Counted between the signs they own, Leo is the 8th from Saturn’s Capricorn and Leo is the 7th from Saturn’s Aquarius. Whatever the ascendant, the houses Saturn rules and the houses the Sun rules sit at those same distances from each other in the chart, so the Saturn–Sun sub-period always joins lordships that far apart.

The Same Pair the Other Way Round: Sun–Saturn

19 × 6 equals 6 × 19, so the Saturn antardasha of the Sun mahadasha is exactly as long as Saturn–Sun: 11 months 12 days. Nothing else about Sun–Saturn matches. It is the sixth sub-period of the Sun’s 6 years rather than the fifth of Saturn’s 19; it opens after 2 years 10 months 6 days of the Sun mahadasha, against 9 years 11 months 21 days here; and its pratyantars start from Saturn instead of the Sun.

What the Texts Assign to Saturn and the Sun

The karaka list the tables give Saturn, the mahadasha lord, is karma, labour, servants, iron, coal and delay itself; for the Sun, the lord of the Saturn–Sun sub-period, it is father, government, authority, the soul (atma) and administration. Parashari practice reads the sub-period through the houses each of the two owns and occupies in the birth chart, and through where the Sun stands counted from Saturn there. None of that is a forecast, and this page makes none: without a chart, Saturn–Sun is a length and a position, and the 11 months 12 days above is the whole of what can be said about it in general.

A birth with the Moon in Pushya, Anuradha or Uttara Bhadrapada opens life inside the Saturn mahadasha itself, part-way through, and whether the Saturn–Sun sub-period is still ahead depends on how far the Moon had gone into the nakshatra. For a birth in Krittika, Uttara Phalguni or Uttara Ashadha, the Sun mahadasha comes first, and the Saturn mahadasha is the sixth in that sequence.

The Other Sub-Periods of the Saturn Mahadasha

The full table for the Saturn mahadasha, with where each sub-period opens and closes, is on the Saturn mahadasha page. How the Saturn mahadasha is read as a whole is in our Saturn mahadasha article, and the system itself in Vimshottari dasha explained. This page in Hindi: शनि महादशा में सूर्य अंतर्दशा.