Shukra

He is also one of the Navagraha, the planet Venus, and the corpus holds none of the nine. That is a census row rather than a record here: this figure is ingested for his narrative role in the two stories this batch tells, and the graha aspect is not written because the treatments consulted do not treat it. A Navagraha pass is the obvious companion to this lane.

Children

• Devayani

Domains

• preceptorship of the asuras
• cursing and boon granting

Relations

• advisor of: Mahabali
• cursed: Yayati

Sources

• Reference treatments of Shukracharya, of Yayati and of the Vamana story.