chhaya
छाया chāyā'Shadow'; the shadow-double of Sanjna left to keep Surya's house when she fled his heat, and the mother of Shani.
Where this term appears
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The tradition calls them chhaya grahas , shadow planets, and it is precise: they have no disc, no body you can point to, only a pair of mathematical points where light goes dark.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
…, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and then Rahu and Ketu , the chhaya-grahas , the shadow-grahas, which are the ascending and descending nodes of the moon's orbit: the two points where eclipses can happe…