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The term is derived from nava (Sanskrit: नव "nine") and graha (Sanskrit: ग्रह "planet, seizing, laying hold of, holding"). The nine parts of the navagraha are the Sun, Moon, planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and the two nodes of the Moon. [2]
There is a similar cluster of Navagraha temples in Chennai, erstwhile Thondai Nadu in and around Kundrathur.. Agatheeswarar Temple - Suryan - Kolapakkkam; Somanaadheeswarar Temple - Chandran - Somangalam
The temples have six daily rituals at various times from 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and two yearly festivals on its calendar. The temples are maintained and administered by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Shani is the root for name for the day Saturday in many other Indian languages. In modern Hindi , Odia , Telugu , Bengali , Marathi , Urdu , Kannada and Gujarati , Saturday is called Shanivaar ; Tamil : Sani kizhamai ; Malayalam : Shaniyazhcha ; Thai : Wạn s̄eār̒ (วันเสาร์).
The term Apāna means the air we breathe. The second Graha is Vāgvai, that is organ of speech, which is controlled by the Atigraha of "Name", that is utterance. The third graha is Jihvā, that is tongue, which is controlled by the Atigraha of taste. The fourth graha is cakśu, that is eyes, which is controlled by the Atigraha of colour.
The monolithic statue of lord Parshwanth is not only very attractive but also larger than the statue of Gommateshwara statue in Shravanabelagola.The statues of the Tirthankaras in Navagraha Teertha can be seen even up to 4 km (2.5 mi) away on the national highway while exiting the tapovan flyover exit near Varur on the Pune-Bangalore Road.
As the name suggests, the book is a karana text, that is, a concise exposition of astronomy. Bhaskara's Karana-kutuhala was followed by Indian astronomers for several centuries, during which no other karana text was produced, until Ganesha composed Graha-laghava or Siddhanta-rahasya in the early 16th century. [3]
Garga-samhita (IAST: Garga-saṃhitā), is an Indian Sanskrit-language text on jyotisha (ancient Indian astrology and astronomy), written as a dialogue between the sages Bharadvaja and Garga. Although attributed to Garga, it was definitely not composed by the ancient astrologer of that name, and can be dated to 6th-7th century CE.