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Volume : II, Issue : V, June - 2012 Navagrahas in the Tçvâram and An Early Image from Tamilnadu R. CHITRA Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Navagarahas are the nine planetary deities. They are Surya (Sun), Candra (Moon), Angaraka or Kuja
(Mars), Budha (Mercury), Brhaspati or Guru (Jupiter), OEukra (Venus), OEanîúvara (Saturn), Râhu and Ketu, the
last two are imaginary while others are planets of the solar system and the Sun is supposed to preside over
them [1]. Set in the center of the solar system, the Sun is rotated round by the other planets over a number of
years; the earth taking 365 days [2]. The earliest notation of grahadevatâs appears in around the 4th century
AD in Tamil literature. This is in the work Paripâ?al which notes the following Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : R. CHITRA, (2012). Navagrahas in the Tçvâram and An Early Image from Tamilnadu. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1037.pdf References : - The Saturn is supposed to take the longest period to come round the sun and its takes 29, years, 166 daysn, 23 hours, 16 minutes and 30 seconds. See Gerd J.R., Mevissen, I?at-pa?gu OEainaioecara, the Lame Planetary God Saturn and His vâhanas, South Asian Archaeology 1997. Rome 2000, p. 1268.
- R.K.K. Rajarajan, Art of the Vijayangara-Nâyakas: Architecture and Iconography, Delhi 2006, p. 144.
- Kamil V. Zvelebil (Tamil Literature, Wiesbaden 1974, pp. 48-49) dates it in the 4th century AD while others
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