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Capella · α Aurigae · Auriga

names 4languages 3 Capella α AurHIP 24608mag 0.08
Capella
Capella sits at right ascension 5.3h, declination +46°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

In the classical tradition this is ब्रह्महृदय Brahmahṛdaya, attested in 3 texts.

The names

vernacular 1 · tribal 2 · borrowed 1

NameLanguageMeaningRegister
ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಹೃದಯ
Brahmahṛdaya
Kannada
Karnataka (Mysore)
Brahmā's heart
The Sūrya-siddhānta tradition's name, in Kannada.
borrowed
barai ipilMundari
Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand
the blacksmith star
The village blacksmith, sitting and watching his smithy fire.
tribal
capua ipilkiŋMundari
Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand
the two bellows stars
The blacksmith's double bellows; Epsilon Aurigae is the sharp vertex of the isosceles triangle whose base they form, and is the smithy fire.
tribal
عيوق
ʻaiyūq
Urdu
Urdu, from Arabic
Arabic al-ʻayyūq
One of the very few individual stars for which Platts gives a precise positional identification, down to the Bayer letter.
vernacular

Sources

  1. N. Venkatesha Ayyangar (transl.), Jyotirvinodini (Bengaluru: Karnataka Sahitya Parishattu, 1931; Karnataka Vaijnanika Grantha Mala 1), Appendix III (alphabetical sky-index), pp. 301-306 link
  2. Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VII, s.v. ipil, cols. 1919-1925 link
  3. John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (London, 1884), s.v. ʻaiyūq, p. 768 link