navagraha worshipped as deities

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 06:08 PM 4/6/98 -0500, you wrote:


>Seventh century CE saiva saint, Thirugnana Sambandhar
>sings a beautiful decad to Siva seeking help for protection
>when planets are doing harm. All the sanskrit namavalis
>may postdate this important bhakti hymn.

What are your reasons for this statement?

>Muthusvaami Dikshitar's navagraha kshetra krithis are
>precise and packed, I have heard.

They are not navagraha kshetra krithis but simply navagraha krithis.

>Muthusvaami Dikshitar and his relatives -
>Annasvami Dikshitar, Balusvami Dikshitar,
>Subbarama Dikshitar, Ambi Shastri,...
>

Not Annasvami but Chinnasami Dikshitar. I do not know whether Ambi
Dikshitar is also called Ambi Sastri. His real name Muddusvami
Dikshitar named after his composer ancestor.

regards,

sarma.

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>Regards,
>N. Ganesan
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