Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.254

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.254

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c5.254

10) The boon of Śani (Saturn). Astronomers are of opinion that famine will occur in the world for the period of twelve years, when the planet Śani (Saturn) comes into the orbit of Rohiṇī (a star). But now the planet Saturn does not come into the orbit of the star Rohiṇī. There is a story in the Padma Purāṇa, which states that this happened so because of a boon Śani had given to Daśaratha.

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Padmapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit