Navagraha Kritis

The songs titles, rāga (musical scale) and tāḷa (rhythmic pattern) are listed below: The set comprises all seven soolādi tāḷas.

The last two (on Rāhu and Kētu) were most likely composed by followers of Dīkshitar, to complete the set of nine even though the signature used in the song is that of Dikshitar (guruguha).

Legend: It is said that Tambiappan, a disciple of Muttuswāmi Dīkshitar was suffering from a stomach ailment and for long no medicines were able to cure him.

As laymen would find these rituals complex he created the composition Bṛhaspatē in the Rāga Aṭhānā propitiating the planet, and asked his disciple to sing it for a week.

This incident provided the impetus for Dīkshitar to compose kritis on all the Navagrahās.