Source
Phaladeepika
फलदीपिका
A 14th-century classical text by Mantreswara, long valued as one of the clearest and most practical classical handbooks.
Phaladeepika is a classical Vedic astrology text composed by Mantreswara, generally dated to the 14th century CE in South India. Across its 28 chapters it gives a systematic, well-organized treatment of the signs and houses, planetary significations, yogas, the dasha systems, and the results read from transits.
Where BPHS is encyclopedic, Phaladeepika is prized for clarity and arrangement: it reads as a practical handbook, and its chapters on the results of the houses and on planetary transits are among the most consulted in everyday practice.
How SahiKundli uses it
Phaladeepika’s clear, sectioned treatment of house results and of transits makes it a natural companion to BPHS for timing work. Where we draw on it, the relevant principle is cited with chapter and shloka, keyed to the named edition above, so a reader can trace the claim to its source.
For SahiKundli’s broader position on classical-text citation and what it does and doesn’t claim, see How we cite.
Used on SahiKundli for: house-results readings (Chapter 8) and Saturn-transit / Sade Sati timing (Chapter 26).