graha
ग्रह graha'Seizer' - one of the nine bodies of Indian astrology. The navagraha are not nine planets: two are the sun and moon, two (Rahu and Ketu) are the mathematical nodes of the moon's orbit, and the earth is not among them.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
He needles Aryabhata for computing the lunar nodes as an eighth graha while denying Rahu, which is a fair hit.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Bühnemann says flatly that the chapter carrying the Vinayaka and graha worship is not an original part of the work.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
It is not a prediction, and the grahas, as the tradition itself teaches, do not author a fate so much as deliver the fruit of one's own past.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The other eight are ranged around him, each turned to a different quarter of the sky, and the arrangement is deliberate to the inch: no graha meets the gaze of another.
- From the margins to the Lord of beginnings Treatise
They belong to the same world as the grahas , the "seizers," the spirit-powers that ordinary people genuinely feared.
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
Sahasranama verse 6, name 20: Vadana smara mangalya graha torana chillika - She whose eyebrows are like the auspicious archways at the entrance of the temple of love.
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
The Hindu tradition administers time through the navagrahas , the "nine grahas " — the planetary powers.
- The Mothers Treatise
The Matrikas ('the Mothers') are a group of fierce mother-goddesses, most often counted as seven (Sapta-Matrika) or eight (Ashta-Matrika), who function as the…