Dasha is called Period. Planets have fixed number of years for which they influence the ascendant/individual. The Main dasha which works is called Mahadasha. Under Mahadasha follows dasha and under dasha follows Partantar dasha.

For example Under Year follows the Months and under months follows the days

Mahadasha->Dasha->Par TantarDasha

Year->Month->Week

Duration of Mahadasha

Let us see what is the influence of planets in their dasha

Sun- In the dasha of sun, if sun is sitting in its enemy house or it deblated or is sitting with its enemies, then this dasha bring hard times to the individual. It gives tension in the family, loss of money, loss of power and problems to wife and children's. If sun is in good place (meaning sun is in friend house like Jupiter, Mercury or Mars) then person will do beneficial traveling, gains of money from job/business. Person gets famous in his work and his chart of success keeps on rising. He is more focused in his work. He has good peace of mind and will have all the comforts in this dasha.

Moon- Moon which represents mind, in the dasha of moon the person is happy. He accomplishes all his goals, gets gains from his work /Job. Good Food, wife, son, clothes, Jewellery, land. He gets comforts from all the corners of life. Things will be reversed if his moon is affected by bad planets. His/Her mother health will be affected; he may find tensions in his house.

Mars- In the dasha of Mars and if mars is well situated, then person gets benefits from work related to fire, Government affairs, and litigation. He may also get benefits from lying, fooling other people and various other bad habits. Reverse should be considered if mars is not well situated. Brothers and sisters struggle in their life.

Venus- In the dasha of Venus, and Venus is well situated, either in Kendra or trikon. Kendra means (1, 4,7and 10th house) and Trikon means (2, 5 and 7th house). Venus is benefic planet by nature. In this dasha individual gets all the comforts of marriage life. Person enjoys the company of opposite sex. He owns big cars, houses and fame in this dasha. If Venus is sitting in the lagan,the person can become film star or film actress. [When we predict such thing like Venus sitting in the lagan makes the person filmstar or film actress, we here assumes that his work house is also strong, his lord of tenth house is sitting with benefic planets. His lagan is being seen by good planets like Jupiter or by the lord of lagan]. If Venus is sitting with bad planets and is surrounded by them, then person gets relation with bad women's. He brings bad name to the family. His suffers in this dasha and is always miserable.

Saturn- In the dasha of saturn/shani, if shani well situated brings prosperity to the person. A lot depends upon where is saturn situated and which house does Saturn represents. If Saturn is sitting in Lagana in Libra (7), which means Saturn is in its top most form. If dasha of Saturn comes, then person can become the leader of community, city, state or country. Saturn is second largest planet and sitting in lagan in its top most house libra (7) give the personality the immense power. If Saturn is affected and is sitting with enemies, then result comes opposite. Saturn also represents job/work. If Saturn is effected his job also gets effected. His job can go or he may face hardships in his job.

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