Navagraha Shanti PujaDone to pacify malefic planetary periods and balance the nine grahas in your chart.

Each of the nine graha deities is invoked individually with its own mantra and offered flowers, rice, turmeric, sandalwood paste and a graha-specific coloured cloth, closed with a havan of at least nine ahutis (traditionally up to 108).

• Navadhanya — nine grains (wheat, paddy, pigeon pea, hyacinth bean, chickpea, mung bean, sesame, black gram, horse gram)
• Nine coloured cloths, one per graha
• Sandalwood paste, flowers, fruit
• Ghee and sacred woods (arka, palash, khadir) for the havan

Temple priests at a dedicated Navagraha shrine, or an engaged Vedic priest/astrologer for a remote sankalp.

Approx. 3 hours · all nine grahas

Suryanar Kovil, administered by the Tamil Nadu HR&CE department, is the only temple in Tamil Nadu with a separate shrine to each of the nine planetary deities — the reason it, rather than a general Vishnu or Shiva temple, is the traditional seat of this specific rite.