Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
ग्रहपूजां च कुर्वोत सर्वपीडासु मानवः ।
एवं शाम्यन्त्यशेषाणि घोराणि द्विजसत्तम ॥
grahapūjāṃ ca kurvota sarvapīḍāsu mānavaḥ / evaṃ śāmyanty aśeṣāṇi ghorāṇi dvijasattama //
وعلى المرء أن يُقيم عبادةَ الكواكب في جميع الشدائد. وهكذا تُسكَّن كلُّ المحنِ المروِّعة، يا أفضلَ ذوي الميلادين.
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The teaching synthesizes: when adversity arises, combine ethical restraint with formal propitiation; the aim is pacification (śamana) rather than confrontation.
Ritual-dharma appendix to Purāṇic instruction; not a pancalakṣaṇa core.
‘Grahapūjā’ can symbolize honoring the forces that condition embodied life (time, fate, habit); reverent alignment reduces the ‘ghora’ experience of those forces.