navagraha
नवग्रह navagrahaThe 'nine grahas' or planetary powers (Surya, Chandra, Mangala, Budha, Brihaspati, Shukra, Shani and the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu), cosmic officers who administer time, fortune and karma. Most temples have a Navagraha shrine.
Explained in depth in The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary PowersWhere this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
What Markel's dating gives is the moment the navagraha becomes a thing you can carve, and Surya is the figure the set assembles around: he is, Markel writes, by far the most important and oldest of the deities,…
- Cousins Across Cultures Treatise
… grove; the Chinese celestial bureaucracy and the Hindu government of navagrahas and lokapālas we met in the last chapter but one — these are genuine family resemblances, and in some cases more than resemblance…
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
The Hindu tradition administers time through the navagrahas , the "nine grahas " — the planetary powers.
- The Temple Is a Cosmos Treatise
Somewhere on the walls you will likely find the sapta-mātṛkā panel, the seven Mothers seated in a row; in a subsidiary shrine, the navagraha block, the nine planetary officers in their fixed arrangement.