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Capella · α Aurigae · Auriga
names 3languages 2 Capella α AurHIP 24608mag 0.08
In the classical tradition this is ब्रह्महृदय Brahmahṛdaya, attested in 3 texts.
The names
vernacular 1 · tribal 2
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| barai ipil | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the blacksmith star The village blacksmith, sitting and watching his smithy fire. | tribal |
| capua ipilkiŋ | Mundari 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 |