Devipattinam * Navagraghas in the sea ~
According to Hinduism, every body should have undergone the impacts of the planets when he/she is living in, according to the placement of the planets, when they (the 9 planets) had been at the time of that person's entry (birth) to the earth.
So, when they move in the Galaxy as per the duration allotted to them, so as to move around the Sun, fixing this as their Axis, it's movement can make impacts on all of us, whether it may be good or bad, which may differ person to person, according to the placements when they had been at the time of one's birth.
The name of the 9 planets as per Hinduism are Suryan (Sun), Chandran (Moon), Sevvaai (Mars), Puthan (mercury), Viyalan (Jupiter), Sukran (Venus), Sani (Saturn), Raghu (shadow planet), Kethu (shadow planet), means imaginary planets (Raghu & Kethu).
Here except 'Raghu' and 'Kethu' other planets are rotating in clockwise direction, having the sun as the axis and contrary the 'Raghu' and 'Kethu' do it in anti clockwise. Actually the 'Raghu' and 'Kethu' had it's own legend that how they being included in the 'Navagraghas'.
The legend as follows...
When the paarkadal (milky ocean) had been churned up with the help of the mountain Mantra as an agitator and the deadly poisonous snake, the serpant king Vasuki as the agitation rope, pivoted on the back of a huge tortoise, which could be known as the incarnation of lord Vishnu, 'Kurma Avtar', a lot of celestially worth able things had been obtained.The one among them is the 'Nectar' (food for being immortal),which was supposed to be got back by the lord Vishnu from the demons ,having lured them by taking the 'Mohini' avtar (very beautiful beyond compared-woman).
Later lord Vishnu distributed the 'nectar' equally to all the devas only, left behind the demons. But among the demons, having known about the tricks of lord Vishnu, one came and sat on the deva's row and tasted the nectar from the 'mohini'. This was reported to lord Vishnu, who had been in the 'mohini avatar' by the lord Sun and the lord Moon, who were sitting near that demon.
Then lord vishnu, transformed into His original state and had flown his 'Sudarshna Chakra' onto that demon and the 'chakra' had decapitated the demon and his head fell on the ground. But due to having drung the nectar he didn't die at all. His head had been called as 'Raghu' (with snake body) and the 'Torso',being called 'Kethu' (with sake head). Due to those betrayal, a legend had been there that the 'Raghu' had swallowed and released the Sun and the Moon at regular intervals, hence happened the eclipses of sun and the moon, which are called in Tamil that 'Surya graghanam' and the 'Chandra graghanam'. Due to this, they have been included in the planetary system as shadow planets, that is, they had been spiritually created, not as real.
you have noticed a sign board hanged on the wall of mantapam, that lord Rama had worshiped and consecrated the Navagraghas (also called as Navapasana stones).
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