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Andromeda
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The names
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| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manganchi | Garo the Garo Hills, Assam (now Meghalaya) | The four upright posts between which the wood for the cremation was heaped; the brightest of the four is the post to which the sacrificial buffalo was tethered. | tribal |
| देवयानी devayānī | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | Devayani The book's भारतीय नाम for the constellation in its complete 88-constellation concordance. Muley himself notes (p. ~16) that uniform Indian names across languages were still to be settled — the set is part report of circulating usage, part proposal. The prose (p. ~283) presents देवयानी-शर्मिष्ठा-ययाति as names 'given in the modern period' — Muley reports the Jambhekar-Dikshit Marathi set, continued into Hindi. | vernacular |
| Samdur | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a sea', from which the rain comes Eight of ten villages. Animal asterisms are seen around the Square — a peacock, a buffalo, a frog, a deer, a horse and sometimes a pig — and their relative brightness is taken to forecast the strength of the coming rain. | tribal |
| देवयानी devayānī | Marathi Maharashtra | Devayani One of the Sanskrit names for the Western constellations that Dikshit credits to Bal Shastri Jambhekar (d. 1846) and reports as current: 'पाश्चात्यांनीं कल्पिलेल्या बाकीच्या राशींस संस्कृत संज्ञा शास्त्री जांभेकर यांनीं दिल्या आहेत. त्याच हल्लीं मराठींत येतात.' (p. 35-36). The eighth-magnitude star of 1885 is S Andromedae; the great nebula in the same पुंज is described at p. 186. | vernacular |
| maraṅ parkom ipilko; Siṅgboṅga gitikente parkom ipilko | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the great bed stars; the bed Siṅgboṅga sleeps on On so great and splendid a bed none but Siṅgboṅga can be supposed to sleep. | tribal |
Sources
- Major A. Playfair, The Garos (London: David Nutt, 1909), p. 86–87 link
- Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~283 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Table 2, p. 71 link
- S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 183 link
- Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VII, s.v. ipil, cols. 1919-1925 link