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Rahu antardasha in Saturn mahadasha

The Rahu antardasha within the Saturn mahadasha is also written Saturn–Rahu.

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

In your chart

Mahadasha
Saturn
Antardasha
Rahu
Mahadasha length
19 years
BPHS 46.15
Working
19×18/120 = 342/120 = 2.850000 years
BPHS 51.1
Duration
2 years, 10 months, 6 days
Position in the mahadasha
8

How long it lasts

The Saturn mahadasha lasts 19 years. Antardasha = 19×18/120 = 342/120 = 2.850000 years, i.e. about 2 years, 10 months, 6 days.

Here 1 year = 365.25 days.

The order of the antardashas

The Saturn mahadasha opens with Saturn's own antardasha (BPHS ch. 51: the first antardasha belongs to the dasha lord), then the planets follow in Vimshottari order: Saturn → Mercury → Ketu → Venus → Sun → Moon → Mars → Rahu → Jupiter. The Rahu antardasha is the eighth in this sequence and begins 13 years, 7 months, 12 days after the mahadasha starts.

What tradition holds

Tradition links the Saturn mahadasha with discipline, patience and long effort, and reads the Rahu antardasha as adding a note of unfamiliar paths, ambition and change. Patience meets change, and a slow, regular pace is seen as most useful. It is a period tradition reads as asking for patience and routine; the real picture comes from where both planets sit 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