What is the name of the planets in Sanskrit?

The Navagrahas (nine planets or nine realms) as per Sanskrit are: 1. Surya/Ravi : The Sun. 2. Chandra/Soma : The Moon. 3. Mangala : Mars. 4. Budha : Mercury. 5. Guru/Brishaspati : Jupiter. 6. Shukra : Venus. 7. Shani : Saturn. 8. read more

The Sun and the Moon aren’t planets. The nine planets (eight if you class Pluto separately as a “dwarf-planet” or subplanetary body) were not all known when Sanskrit was still a live language, so they do not all have sanskrit names. read more

My good friend Frank Schmidt wrote the following on the Sanskrit roots of the names of the planets. Interesting and insightful! Sun or sūrya सूर्य. sūra is the sun. If we consider it as sūra+ ya it is the sun (sūra) + mover (ya). read more