dasha
दशा daśāA planetary period in Indian astrology - a span of life assigned to the rulership of a particular graha. The Vimshottari dasha, running 120 years, is the most widely used system.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
…e hospital, with twelve signs and twelve houses and nine grahas and a dasha sequence running out to a hundred and twenty years.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The clock of the periods is the system of the dashas , and the standard one is called Vimshottari , "of a hundred and twenty," because it divides a full ideal lifespan of a hundred and twenty years among the ni…
- What are Mudras? Lineages
…rshipper offers the Goddess a fixed set of ten secret hand-seals, the dasha-mudra , "the ten mudras." Nine of them belong to the nine enclosures of the chakra, each the seal of the power that guards that ring, …
- Who is Kali? Deities
In the Tantric reckoning of the Dasha Mahavidya , the ten great forms of wisdom of the Goddess, Kali stands first, the foremost of them all, the form from which the others are often said to flow.
- Of Old Treatise
…ally ambitious of them, quietly replaces the five marks with ten, the dasha-lakshana , adding categories for divine sustenance, for the deeds of the Lord, and for the soul's final resort, so that the definition…
- A walk down the ghats Treatise
… all, Dashashwamedh , whose name we have already met: the ghat of the dasha-ashvamedha , the ten horse-sacrifices that Brahma is said to have performed here to welcome Shiva home in the days of Divodasa.
- How Shiva lost his city Treatise
… presence back, performs a great sacrifice: ten horse-sacrifices, the dasha-ashvamedha , on the bank of the river.
- Ten Faces of the One Treatise
The Mahavidyas are ten Tantric goddess-forms of the one Great Goddess (Mahadevi), worshipped in Shakta Tantra as ten 'great wisdoms' (maha-vidya). The standard list…