Deity guide

Navgraha

Explore key symbols, mantra, worship traditions and related prayers in one place.

Navagraha

Worship at a glance

Key traditions and symbols

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Worship Day

Graha-specific weekdays; Saturday especially important in popular practice

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Offerings

Til, lamps, graha-specific flowers and grains; multi-color

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Color

Til, lamps, graha-specific flowers and grains; multi-color

About

Navgraha

The Navgraha page should be built as a meta-page, not a substitute for nine separate graha pages. Its job is to explain that practical worship is usually planet-specific, tied to weekday, mantra, color, grain, and remedial context. Use the page to organize the nine grahas, their weekday associations, shortest mantras, and cross-links to Surya, Shani, and separate graha pages.

In devotional tradition

Significance

Textually, the page should not pretend that there is one universally canonical collective 108-name list for the Navagraha as a whole. The better build is a Navagraha landing page with subpages for Surya, Chandra, Mangala, Budha, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Rahu, and Ketu, each with its own stotra or aṣṭottara. Temple coverage should anchor at Suryanar Kovil, which is especially important because it houses all nine planetary shrines. FAQs should answer whether one can worship only one graha, whether astrology is required to use the page, and whether Navgraha worship is separate from devotion to major deities. Symbolically, the page should explain the grahas as cosmic intelligences and karmic patterning rather than “good” and “bad” planets.