The texts slightly disagree in their data, in their measurements of Budha's revolutions, apogee, epicycles, nodal longitudes, orbital inclination, and other parameters.

Budha is part of the Navagraha in the Hindu zodiac system, considered benevolent, associated with an agile mind and memory.

Glorifying planetary bodies and their astrological significance occurred as early as the Vedic period and was recorded in the Vedas.

The Yavanajataka, or Science of the Yavanas, was written by the Indo-Greek named "Yavaneshvara" ("Lord of the Greeks") under the rule of the Western Kshatrapa king Rudrakarman I.

In modern Hindi, Odia, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati, Wednesday is called Budhavara; Tamil: Budhan kizhamai; Malayalam: Budhanazhcha; Thai: Wan Phut (วันพุธ).

[citation needed] Budha's iconography, according to Roshen Dalal, is as a benevolent[10] male god with green body, draped into yellow clothes, holding a scimitar, a club, and a shield.