ग्रहाणां वर्णध्यानादि कथनम्The colours and meditations of the planets
Verse 85
सूरो रक्तः शशी शुक्लो मङ्गलोऽरुणविग्रहः । बुधजीवौ पाण्डुपीतौ श्वेतः शुक्रोऽसितः शनिः । राहुकेतू विचित्राभौ ग्रहवर्णाः प्रकीर्तिताः ॥ ८५ ॥
sūrō raktaḥ śaśī śuklō maṅgalō’ruṇavigrahaḥ | budhajīvau pāṇḍupītau śvētaḥ śukrō’sitaḥ śaniḥ | rāhukētū vicitrābhau grahavarṇāḥ prakīrtitāḥ || 85 ||
Translation
The Sun is red, the Moon white, Maṅgala red-bodied, Budha and Jīva pale and yellow, Śukra white, Śani black, Rāhu and Ketu of many colours: these are declared the colours of the planets.
Word by word
- sūraḥ
- (sūraḥ) the Sun
- raktaḥ
- (raktaḥ) red
- śaśī
- the Moon
- śuklaḥ
- (śuklaḥ) white
- maṅgalaḥ
- (maṅgalaḥ) Maṅgala
- aruṇa
- (aruṇa) red
- vigrahaḥ
- (vigrahaḥ) bodied
- budha
- Budha
- jīvau
- and Jīva
- pāṇḍu
- pale
- pītau
- and yellow
- śvētaḥ
- (śvetaḥ) white
- śukraḥ
- (śukraḥ) Śukra
- asitaḥ
- (asitaḥ) black
- śaniḥ
- (śaniḥ) Śani
- rāhu
- Rāhu
- kētū
- and Ketu
- vicitra
- many-coloured
- ābhau
- (ābhau) in hue
- graha
- of the planets
- varṇāḥ
- (varṇāḥ) the colours
- prakīrtitāḥ
- (prakīrtitāḥ) are declared
Meaning
These are the colours used for the nine angles of the yantra (verse 77) and for each planet's flowers and cloth (verse 116). Jīva is Bṛhaspati (Jupiter).
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Now he tells in turn the colours of the nine planets, the Sun and the rest, in a verse and a half, "sūraḥ" and the rest. Sūraḥ: the Sun.