# Niryaana Shoola dasa — length and direction, sourced

Reference chart: 15 Sep 1980, 07:30:00. Lagna Virgo.

    Li  1980-09-15 - 1987-09-16   7 y
    Sc  1987-09-16 - 1995-09-16   8 y
    Sg  1995-09-16 - 2004-09-15   9 y
    Cp  2004-09-15 - 2011-09-16   7 y
    Aq  2011-09-16 - 2019-09-16   8 y
    Pi  2019-09-16 - 2028-09-15   9 y
    Ar  2028-09-15 - 2035-09-16   7 y
    Ta  2035-09-16 - 2043-09-16   8 y
    Ge  2043-09-16 - 2052-09-15   9 y
    Cn  2052-09-15 - 2059-09-16   7 y
    Le  2059-09-16 - 2067-09-16   8 y
    Vi  2067-09-16 - 2076-09-15   9 y

## The length rule — complete, and it is not a cycle of 7/8/9 by position

It looks at first like the lengths simply repeat 7, 8, 9. They do, but that is a
consequence, not the rule. Line the lengths up against the **quality** of each
sign and the rule is exact:

    movable (chara)        Ar Cn Li Cp   ->  7 years
    fixed (sthira)         Ta Le Sc Aq   ->  8 years
    dual (dwisvabhava)     Ge Vi Sg Pi   ->  9 years

All twelve rows obey it. The 7/8/9 repetition appears only because the qualities
themselves repeat every three signs in zodiacal order; a dasha running in the
reverse direction, or starting elsewhere, would show 9, 8, 7 or another order,
and reading the rule as "repeat 7, 8, 9" would then be wrong in a way no
structural test would catch.

This is the same lesson as Sree lagna, in a smaller key: the observable pattern
and the actual rule coincide here, and would part company on the next chart.

## Direction

Zodiacal, from Libra. Libra is the **second** from the Virgo lagna — a maraka
house, which fits a dasha named for death (niryaana).

One chart fixes the length rule completely, because all twelve qualities appear
in it. It does **not** fix the direction rule, which in the Shoola family
normally depends on the odd/even character of the starting sign. A second chart
with an even starting sign settles it, and until it does the direction stays an
option in the payload rather than a hard-coded zodiacal march.