Deciding on the Term of LongevityThe term of life can be 100 years or more than that. If we look into the various dasa periods we find that there are 120 years, 108 years, 99 years etc ...e will assume the avera!e len!th of life as 100 years as this is the normal e"pected a!e. This is only assumption. #f course many authors includin! $r. %.&.'aman has taken the e"pected term of life as 100 years.(ow these 100 years has to be further sub divided. )ow* +ccordin! to various te"ts it has a ma,or sub division of three termed as -i. /hort 0ife -ii. 1iddle life -iii.0on! life. (ow when we are !oin! to distribute this 100 years, each term !ets 22.22 years. /o /hort life is up to say 22 years, 1iddle life is from 23 years to 44 years and 0on! life is from 45 years to 100 years.+lmost all classics have a set of rules to decide on the term of lon!evity of an individual. 1ost popular method amon!st astrolo!ers is the principles outlined in 6aimini /utrasfollowedbyrules!ivenby7arasara./implermethodsarealso available in (adi literature.)ere Iam !oin!toe"amineoneverse from 7rasna 1ar!a. 'eferenceisfrom 8hapter I9, verse 40 and 41: 40!" #$ !"%& "" '"(417rof. %.&.'aman translates this as ;+ccordin! as lords of 0a!na and the 8th there from and 0ords of 8handra 0a!na and the 8th there from are mutually inimical, neutral or friendly, the len!th of life would be +lpa -/hort., 1adhya -1edium. or 7oorna -If the 0ord of 8handra (avamsa is inimical, neutral or friendly to the lord of the 43th(avamsa there from, the lon!evity of the person will be short, medium or full. The /un and lord of 0a!na should be similarly reckoned.? == 41