[INDOLOGY] Navagraha worship in Tamil literature

[Ofer Peres]

Many thanks to Jean-Luc Chevillard, Srilata Raman, Archana Venkatesan, Rolf
Heinrich Koch, Asko Parpola, and Jim Ryan for their valuable references and
information!
Best,
Ofer.

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 10:47, Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Early Tamil texts have preserved planetary names which go back to the
> Dravidian language of the Indus Civilization, for they can be verifiably
> read in the Indus inscriptions. See
> Parpola, Asko, 1994. Deciphering the Indus script, Cambridge University
> Press, p. 179ff.
> Parpola, Asko, 2015. The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus
> Civilization, Oxford University Press, p. 266ff.
> For Śani/Saturn in particular, see 1994 p. 197 and 2015 p. 276, and for
> Saturn’s (and the night-sun’s) connection with the tortoise, p. 206-208.
>
> With best wishes, Asko
>
>
>
> On 23 Jul 2020, at 19.51, Rolf Heinrich Koch via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Mevissen, Gerd. J.R. 2000, *Īṣat-paṅgu Śanaiścara, the Lame Planetary God
> Saturn and His vāhanas*, Serie Orientale Roma, Vol. XC. Roma: 1267-1297.
>
>
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