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Ketu antardasha in Jupiter mahadasha

The Ketu antardasha within the Jupiter mahadasha is also written Jupiter–Ketu.

Source: BPHS (Santhanam) 46.12–14, Vimshottari order from Krittika: Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, Venus

In your chart

Mahadasha
Jupiter
Antardasha
Ketu
Mahadasha length
16 years
BPHS 46.15
Working
16×7/120 = 112/120 = 0.933333 years
BPHS 51.1
Duration
11 months, 6 days
Position in the mahadasha
4

How long it lasts

The Jupiter mahadasha lasts 16 years. Antardasha = 16×7/120 = 112/120 = 0.933333 years, i.e. about 11 months, 6 days.

Here 1 year = 365.25 days.

The order of the antardashas

The Jupiter mahadasha opens with Jupiter's own antardasha (BPHS ch. 51: the first antardasha belongs to the dasha lord), then the planets follow in Vimshottari order: Jupiter → Saturn → Mercury → Ketu → Venus → Sun → Moon → Mars → Rahu. The Ketu antardasha is the fourth in this sequence and begins 6 years, 11 months, 6 days after the mahadasha starts.

What tradition holds

Tradition links the Jupiter mahadasha with knowledge, guidance and dharma, and reads the Ketu antardasha as adding a note of turning inward, simplicity and the spiritual. Wisdom meets the spiritual, linked with inner understanding and practice. The real picture comes from the signs and houses of both planets in the chart.

In your chart

See when this period falls in your chart, and where both planets sit, in the free kundli.

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Sources

  • BPHS (Santhanam) 46.12–14 · Vimshottari order from Krittika: Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, Venus
  • BPHS (Santhanam) 46.15 · Dasha years 6, 10, 7, 18, 16, 19, 17, 7, 20 (OCR shows "6,lO, 7, 18, 16, 19,l'1,7 and20")
  • BPHS (Santhanam) 46.12–14, translator's note · 120 years in total
  • BPHS (Santhanam) 51.1 · Antardasha = MD years × AD years ÷ total dasha years (120)
  • BPHS (Santhanam) 51.1, notes · Worked example: Venus–Venus = 20×20/120 = 3 years 4 months
  • BPHS (Santhanam) 51.1, notes · Shortcut: MD×AD, drop the last digit as months, the last digit ×3 as days (360-day reckoning); Saturn–Mercury 17×19 = 323
  • BPHS (Santhanam) 51.2 · The first antardasha belongs to the dasha lord; the rest follow the dasha order
  • Praśna Mārga (Raman tr.) stanza 65, notes · An example of the 360-day year in a dasha context (the praśna daśā, not the natal one)

Checked against the classical texts · Last reviewed: 2026-10-14