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  2. Navagraha - Wikipedia

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    A typical navagraha shrine found inside a Hindu temple. The term planet was applied originally only to the five planets known (i.e., visible to the naked eye) and excluded the Earth. The term was later generalized, particularly during the Middle Ages, to include the sun and the moon (sometimes referred to as "lights"), making a total of seven ...

  3. Loka - Wikipedia

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    Influenced by the special connotations that a word for space might have for a nomadic people, loka in the Veda did not simply mean place or world, but had a positive valuation: it was a place or position of religious or psychological interest with a special value or function of its own. Hence, inherent in the 'loka' concept in the earliest ...

  4. Rahu - Wikipedia

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    Rāhu (Sanskrit: राहु, ) is one of the nine major celestial bodies in Hindu texts and the king of meteors. [1] It represents the ascension of the Moon in its precessional orbit around the Earth, also referred as the north lunar node, [2] and along with Ketu, is a "shadow planet" that causes eclipses. Despite having no physical existence ...

  5. Navagraha temples - Wikipedia

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    The planets were pleased by his devotion and offered cure to the sage. Brahma, the Hindu god of creation, was angered, as he felt that the planets had no powers to give boons to humans. He cursed the nine planets to suffer from leprosy and sent them down to earth in Vellerukku Vanam, the white wild flower jungle - the modern Suryanar Kovil.

  6. Ketu (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Ketu rules the Scorpio zodiac sign together with Mangala (traditional ruling planet; Mars in Western astrology). Astronomically, Rahu and Ketu denote the points of intersection of the paths of Surya which is the Sun and Chandra which is the Moon as they move on the celestial sphere , and do not correspond to a physical planet. [ 6 ]

  7. Brihaspati - Wikipedia

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    In the ancient Vedic scriptures of Hinduism, Brihaspati is a deity associated with fire, and the word also refers to a god who counsels the devas and devis (gods and goddesses). [2] [3] [4] In some later texts, the word refers to the largest planet of the solar system, Jupiter, and the deity is associated with the planet as a Navagraha. [2] [5]

  8. Surya - Wikipedia

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    In Hindu context, the sun-god only appears at a later period, as in the Virūpākṣa temple in Paṭṭadakal (8th century CE). [48] The iconography of Surya in Hinduism varies with its texts. He is typically shown as a resplendent standing person holding a lotus flower in both hands, riding a chariot pulled by one or more horses typically ...

  9. Urdhva lokas - Wikipedia

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    Bhuloka or Earth where humans live. The sphere of the Earth or Bhuloka (‘Bhu’ means ‘Earth’ and ‘loka’ means the surface of the Earth), comprehending its oceans, mountains, and rivers, extends as far as it is illuminated by the rays of the Sun and Moon; and to the same extent, both in diameter and circumference, the sphere of the sky (Bhuvaloka) spreads above it (as far upwards as ...