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Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia · — · Cassiopeia
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The names
vernacular 2 · tribal 3
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mangripe | Garo the Garo Hills, Assam (now Meghalaya) | 'the carrying of the body' The bearing of the corpse to the funeral pyre — the opening scene of the funeral of the moon's mother, which is the single story the Garo sky tells. | tribal |
| शर्मिष्ठा śarmiṣṭhā | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | Sharmishtha 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. | vernacular |
| Namli / Namali | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a peacock' One of the five or six animals that stand around Samdur and forecast the monsoon by their brightness. Landgi Pod reads the peacock as a bad sign, Chinchpod as less rain, Kakban as less rain. Six of the ten villages knew the animals. | tribal |
| Sohlu vang araipa | Mara (Lakher) the Lakher country, southern Lushai Hills (now southern Mizoram) and the Chin Hills | Five stars formed out of four men and a flying fox's skin which they were stretching out to dry when the great darkness descended. | tribal |
| शर्मिष्ठा śarmiṣṭhā | Marathi Maharashtra | Sharmishtha 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). | vernacular |
Sources
- Major A. Playfair, The Garos (London: David Nutt, 1909), p. 86 link
- Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~289 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 row 12, p. 71, and Appendix 1.2.2 (Janguguda), p. 80 link
- N.E. Parry, The Lakhers (London: Macmillan, 1932), p. 496 link
- S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 182 link