The Drig Dasha proceeds in the order of rasi drishti (sign-aspect) — a movable sign beholding the fixed signs other than the adjacent one, and so forth — the years of each sign being obtained by counting from that sign up to its lord. The Navamsha Dasha is to be known by this very same procedure applied within the navamsha (D-9) chart. Drig Dasha is chiefly employed for learning, dharma and spiritual progress, the navamsha application for matters of the ninth division.
dṛṣṭiḥ kālasya yantraṃ yatra dṛgdaśā tatra pravartate
Where sight itself becomes the engine of time, there Drig Dasha operates: each sign's period is defined by what it beholds. Movable signs gaze at fixed ones, fixed at movable, dual at dual — so the dasa order follows the geometry of glances rather than adjacency of signs.
Verse 3 — Years by Counting to the Sign Lord
राशेरीशपर्यन्तं गणनं वर्षाणां मापकम् ॥
rāśer īśa-paryantaṃ gaṇanaṃ varṣāṇāṃ māpakam
Count from the dasa sign forward until its own lord's sign is reached; that count is the years of the period. A sign whose lord sits in the next house gets a brief span; one whose lord has travelled far enjoys long tenure — proximity of ruler to realm measures the reign.
Verse 4 — Drig Dasha for Education and Dharma
दृग्दशायां विद्याधर्मप्रगतिः प्रधाना ॥
dṛgdaśāyāṃ vidyā-dharma-pragatiḥ pradhānā
Learning and dharma dominate Drig readings: degrees earned, scriptures mastered, gurus met and initiations received cluster in favourable drig spans. Because sight signifies knowledge-reception, this clock tracks the curriculum of the soul better than any worldly reckoning.
Within the navamsha wheel, dasa operates exactly as in the rasi wheel — the same procedures applied to the ninth division. What the rasi timeline does for outer life, the navamsha timeline does for inner life: marriage's inner reality, dharma's maturation, and hidden strengths ripening on schedule.
Verse 6 — Karakamsa Contact Validates Both Clocks
कारकांशस्पर्शे दृग्नवांशकालौ पुष्टौ ॥
kārakāṃśa-sparśe dṛg-navāṃśa-kālau puṣṭau
When active drig or navamsha periods touch the Karakamsa or its trines, their promised results become near-certain — initiations land, teachers arrive, breakthroughs occur. Karakamsa contact is the seal of authenticity on these two refined clocks.
Verse 7 — Spiritual Breakthroughs in Drig-Karakamsa Overlap
दृग्कारकांशसन्धौ आध्यात्मिकी सिद्धिः ॥
dṛg-kārakāṃśa-sandhau ādhyātmikī siddhiḥ
At the junction where a drig period meets a karakamsa-linked sign, spiritual siddhis precipitate: meditation deepens abruptly, kundalini phenomena surface, or life-direction pivots toward renunciation. Seekers should schedule intensive sadhana into these windows deliberately.
Verse 8 — Marriage Reality Check Through Navamsha Dasha
नवांशदशायां दारसुखं भिन्नं वा विचार्यते ॥
navāṃśadaśāyāṃ dāra-sukhaṃ bhinnan vā vicāryate
Navamsha dasa tests whether apparent marital happiness matches inner reality: benefic periods over the D-9 UL strengthen unions from within, while malefic runs there expose cracks invisible in the rasi chart — often years before external symptoms appear.