by Maharishi Parasara · 5 chapters
The compact Parashari manual on functional house rulership and Vimshottari Dasha timing, transmitted as the Ududayapradipa and later expanded in South India as Jataka Chandrika. It reduces the predictive method of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra to a working core: Trikona and Trishadaya lordship, Kendra lord neutrality, Kendradhipatya Dosha, the randhresha exception, Maraka longevity rules, Dasha-Bhukti mechanics, and Lagna-wise benefics and malefics.
सिद्धान्तमौपनिषदं शुद्धान्तं परमेष्ठिनः। शोणाधरं महः किञ्चिद्वीणाधरमुपास्महे॥१॥
We worship that supreme effulgence in the form of Goddess Sarasvati: the principle expounded by the Upanishads, the pure consort of Parameshthi (Brahma), whose lips are red like the bimba fruit and who holds the veena.
वयं पाराशरीं होरामनुसृत्य यथामति। उडुदायप्रदीपाख्यं कुर्मो दैवविदां मुदे॥२॥
Following the Parashari Hora according to our own understanding, we compose this work named Ududayapradipa, a lamp on the planetary periods, for the delight of astrologers.
फलानि नक्षत्रदशाप्रकारेण विवृण्महे। दशा विंशोत्तरी चात्र ग्राह्या नाष्टोत्तरी मता॥३॥
We explain the results according to the nakshatra dasha method. Here the Vimshottari dasha alone is to be accepted; Ashtottari is not held to be applicable.