[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit idiom question - sidetracked

[Martin Gansten]

To the best of my knowledge, krūra[graha] is never used as a proper name 
or exclusive epithet of one planet/graha, but only as a synonym of 
pāpa/aśubha/asaumya/etc., a category that always includes Mars and 
Saturn, and often the sun, Rāhu and Ketu.

Martin


Den 2017-06-30 kl. 11:38, skrev Balogh Dániel via INDOLOGY:
>
> This is a sidetrack, apropos of Ashok Aklujkar's postscript note. I 
> had also thought of the Mudrārākṣasa verse when I saw krūravarjito in 
> the stanza that was the subject of the original question. Now my 
> question is: is krūra and/or krūragraha used elsewhere in 
> astrological/astronomical literature in a sense more specific than 
> "malefics"? Can it expressly mean Rāhu? Or the Sun? Or anything else?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Daniel
>