What is Vimshottari dasha in astrology?

It is a 120-year cycle that divides life into planetary periods. The period you are born into depends on the Moon's nakshatra at birth, and the periods then follow a fixed order through the nine grahas.

How do I calculate my Vimshottari dasha?

You need your birth date, time and place. The Moon's sidereal position at birth determines your starting nakshatra and dasha balance. Dhaama does this calculation for you and shows the full timeline.

What is the difference between mahadasha and antardasha?

The mahadasha is the long main period (6–20 years). The antardasha is a sub-period inside it. The mahadasha sets the broad theme; the antardasha colours the current stretch of months.

Is a dasha a prediction?

No. It describes which themes in your chart are most active during a period. It is best read as timing context, not as fixed events.

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How it fits together

You write a line about your day. That's the mental part, and honestly it's enough. If you want more, the app reads that line against where you are in time — the long chapter you're in, the hour of the day, the channel in the body that's currently awake — and offers one small physical practice. What comes up often needs another person, so you're pointed toward people and circles who can meet it. Meeting it means someone actually doing something, which is where behaviour lives. And what you give away, freely, is the part that isn't about you at all.

Punya is simply a record of that last part. It's split across seven centres so you can see which parts of yourself are being fed and which are quietly starving.

The seven centres

RootMuladhara
Feeling safe and steady — the ground under everything else.
Earned by: Receiving help and showing up day after day
SacralSvadhisthana
Feeling and making — your creative, emotional weather.
Earned by: Sharing photos, moods and things you've made
Solar plexusManipura
Will and follow-through — doing the thing you said you'd do.
Earned by: Completing help you offered someone
HeartAnahata
Warmth toward others, freely given.
Earned by: Compliments given and punya chipped in for others
ThroatVishuddha
Saying the true thing — voice, honesty, expression.
Earned by: Journaling and posting to the feed
Third eyeAjna
Seeing clearly — insight into your own patterns.
Earned by: Reflections and time spent with your chart
CrownSahasrara
The part of you that isn't about you.
Earned by: Giving punya away and lifting other people up

Words the app uses

Punya: Good that you've actually done — merit earned by kindness, not by intention.; It's what punya counts here, and why only earned points move your tier.
Punya: Action and its echo — what you do coming back around.; Every point in the app is a record of something you did for someone.
Chakra: One of seven centres in the body, each standing for a part of being human — safety, feeling, will, love, voice, insight, meaning.; Your punya is sorted into these seven, so you can see which parts of you are getting fed.
Mahadasha: The long chapter of life you're in, ruled by one planet, lasting years.; It sets the theme; your chakra focus and daily practice follow from it.
Antardasha: A shorter season inside that chapter, ruled by a second planet.; It colours the mood of the years-long theme — the sub-plot inside the story.
Pratyantardasha: A brief phase inside the season — weeks rather than years.; It's usually what today actually feels like.
Hora: The planetary hour — each hour of the day belongs to one planet.; It's the smallest timing signal, useful for choosing when to write, ask or help.
Nakshatra: One of 27 lunar mansions — the patch of sky the Moon was sitting in when you were born.; It sets where your dasha sequence begins, so everything downstream depends on it.
Dasha lord: The planet in charge of the period you're in.; Its qualities are what the app's colours, crystals and volunteering suggestions respond to.
Meridian: In Chinese medicine, a channel in the body that's most active at a certain time of day.; It gives the physical counterpart to the chakra — where to put attention in the body right now.
Lagna: The sign rising on the horizon at your birth — the lens you meet the world through.; It anchors the whole chart, and shapes which archetype circle you're offered.
Daana: Giving — a specific thing donated to soften a planet's harder edge.; It's the oldest version of what this app does: help given, weight lifted.

Guides

What is Vimshottari dasha?
The 120-year timing cycle — mahadasha, antardasha, pratyantardasha — explained plainly.
Hora today
What the planetary hour is, how today's timings are calculated, and what each hour is good for.
How to write a gratitude journal
The smallest wellbeing practice that has been seriously studied — and how to make it stick.

None of this is required. One line a day is a complete practice.