[INDOLOGY] Navagraha worship in Tamil literature

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Dear Ofer,

another line of investigation is for you to explore the Nikaṇṭu-s, alias 
Kōṣa-s, alias Uriccoṟpaṉuval-s உரிச்சொற்பனுவல், if we use the 
terminology of Mayilainātar commenting on Naṉṉūl 459.

The Tivākaram enumerates:
35 names for arukkaṉ அருக்கன்
20 names for cantiraṉ
10 names for cevvāy
14 names for putaṉ
11 names for viyāḻam
15 names for cukkiraṉ
13 names for caṉi
1 name for irāku
1 name for kētu

The Piṅkalam (whose name is known to the Naṉṉūl) has usually more names:

64 names for cūriyaṉ
36 names for cantiraṉ
15 names for cevvāy
11 names for putaṉ (WHY DID HE LOSE NAMES?)
13 names for viyāḻaṉ
15 names for veḷḷi
11 names for caṉi (WHY DID HE LOSE NAMES?)
2 names for irāku
3 names for kētu

I might go on with other kōṣa-s but this should be enough for arguing 
that there is something worth exploring.

I'll send you the corresponding pages directly in a private message

All the best

-- Jean-Luc (in Müssen)


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On 24/07/2020 10:30, Ofer Peres via INDOLOGY wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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