Vimshottari Dasha Calculator
Why dashas are the timing backbone
A promise in the chart delivers only when its period arrives. Career rises, marriages, relocations — Jyotish times them through the 120-year Vimshottari sequence seeded by your birth nakshatra.
Why apps disagree on your dates
Two reasons: rounded birth times and different ayanamsas. The Moon crosses a nakshatra boundary on 96.1% of days — a small time error shifts your entire dasha calendar. We compute the degree and show it.
How the dasha sequence is built
Vimshottari Dasha distributes a 120-year cycle across the nine planets, each ruling a fixed span — Ketu 7 years, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19 and Mercury 17. The planet ruling your birth nakshatra begins the sequence, and the portion of that nakshatra the Moon has already crossed sets how much of the first period remains at birth. From there the periods run in the same fixed order and repeat. You can read the full system on our Vimshottari Dasha page.
Each Mahadasha is subdivided into nine Antardashas in the same order, scaled to each planet's share of the cycle, and astrologers go deeper still into Pratyantardashas for precise timing. Apps disagree on dates mainly because they differ on the Moon's exact longitude and the ayanamsa used; BhagyaX fixes both with the Swiss Ephemeris and the Lahiri ayanamsa, so the balance at birth is computed rather than approximated.
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Which dasha is running for me right now?
Enter birth details and BhagyaX returns your current mahadasha-antardasha with start and end dates — free, no signup.
Are dasha predictions exact to the day?
The period boundaries are computed exactly; results within them arrive as windows shaped by transits. Anyone promising day-perfect events is selling theatre.
How long is the full Vimshottari cycle?
The complete cycle is 120 years — the sum of the nine planetary periods — beginning from the dasha balance present at birth.
Why do different sites give different dasha dates?
The dates depend on the Moon's exact longitude at birth and the ayanamsa used; small differences in either shift the start and end of every period.