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As Brahmanyah, Saturn can therefore be said to be Brahma's planet.
In fact, while Indologists may find it difficult to accept, Brahma has long been identified as Saturn by certain sages of Hindu religion itself.
these sages consider Brahma to be the "true sun", which is the same as saying that, to them, it is Saturn, and not the present solar orb, that is the real "sun."
Since even these sages can see that this is absurdly not so, we can only assume, on the strength of what we have learned, that this dictum must have been believed to stem from ancient lore.
But how could Saturn have been to ancient man what the Sun is to us today?
As any work on Indian mythology will assert, Surya is not only the name of the god of the Sun but is the most common Sanskrit name of the Sun itself.
There are, however, lines of evidence which indicate that Surya, too, was originally Saturn, the least of which not being the reference to Surya as graha Surya, that is the planet Sun.
as in the case of the Egyptian Ra, Surya is described as having motions and characteristics which do not fit those of the Sun.
Thus, to give but one example, Surya is said to have occupied samanam dhama, which means "the same place of rising and setting."
Everyone knows that the Sun does not rise and set in the same place.
Let me, however, be a little more specific. Surya is also termed Suraj.
But Suraj, again, is yet another name for the planet Saturn.
So that, yet one more time, we can see that Saturn and the Sun once shared the same name as, among the Hindus, at least in Sanskrit, they still do.
another Sanskrit name for the planet Saturn is Grahanayakah, which means "chief, or leader, of the planets."
But, again, Grahanayakah is also one of the names bestowed on the Sun.
