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Moon antardasha in Mars mahadasha

The Moon antardasha within the Mars mahadasha is also written Mars–Moon.

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

In your chart

Mahadasha
Mars
Antardasha
Moon
Mahadasha length
7 years
BPHS 46.15
Working
7×10/120 = 70/120 = 0.583333 years
BPHS 51.1
Duration
7 months
Position in the mahadasha
9

How long it lasts

The Mars mahadasha lasts 7 years. Antardasha = 7×10/120 = 70/120 = 0.583333 years, i.e. about 7 months.

Here 1 year = 365.25 days.

The order of the antardashas

The Mars mahadasha opens with Mars's own antardasha (BPHS ch. 51: the first antardasha belongs to the dasha lord), then the planets follow in Vimshottari order: Mars → Rahu → Jupiter → Saturn → Mercury → Ketu → Venus → Sun → Moon. The Moon antardasha is the ninth in this sequence and begins 6 years, 5 months after the mahadasha starts.

What tradition holds

Tradition links the Mars mahadasha with courage, effort and initiative, and reads the Moon antardasha as adding a note of the mind, feelings and home. Feeling meets courage: the advice is to put the mind's energy into useful work. 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.

Read next

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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