The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c19.s10.1

v1.c19.s10.1

There is a certain curious paucity of evidence of worship of constellations other than the sun and the moon, especially in its connexion with Soma,⁹ and the planets seem to have attracted little notice. Whether we believe or not that they were known to the Vedic Indians, at any rate it is obvious that they received no direct worship in the period of the Rigveda, and it is not until the close of the Vedic ritual that we have enumerations of them such as that of the Baudhāyana Dharma Sūtra,¹⁰ which gives in a late passage sun, moon, Aṅgāraka, Budha, Bṛhaspati, Çukra, Çanaiçcara, Rāhu and Ketu. Planetary influences, signified in the term Grahas, ‘seizers’, applied to the planets, seem not to have troubled the imagination of the early Indians.¹