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The names
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| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khayan | Gondi Nagpur region: Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Gondia (Maharashtra), Adilabad (Telangana), Balaghat, Seoni, Mandla (Madhya Pradesh) | — | tribal |
| नरतुरंग naraturaṅga | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | the man-horse 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. Prose: 'सेंटौरस् मंडल को भारत में कभी किन्नर, तो कभी नरतुरंग कहा जाता है' — an explicit report of received usage, with किन्नर as the variant. | vernacular |
| ನರಾಶ್ವ narāśva | Kannada Karnataka (Mysore) | the man-horse The book's Kannada rendering of the Western name, presented as such — the rendering itself entered Kannada astronomy vocabulary. Figure 13 in the book carries the name as its caption. | vernacular |
| Kadma | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a young lady' The second flower-gatherer under the Mahua tree. | tribal |
| Murta | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'an old lady' Standing under the Mahua tree of Crux to collect its fallen flowers. | tribal |
| Oedda | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a man' At Landgi Pod the two bright stars beside the Mahua tree are a man and a woman rather than the old lady and the young lady given elsewhere. | tribal |
| Pilla | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a woman' The companion of Oedda at Landgi Pod, in place of Kadma the young lady. | tribal |
| Bharada | Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh | Given with apparent magnitude 2.25. | tribal |
| Charakhaya | Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh | Given with apparent magnitude 0.55. | tribal |
| Dhanay | Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh | Given with apparent magnitude 0.10. | tribal |
| Pechla | Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh | Given with apparent magnitude 2.05. | tribal |
| दक्षिणर्क्ष dakṣiṇarkṣa | Marathi Maharashtra | the southern asterism/bear Dikshit's own coinage, paired with त्रिशंकु: he reads Crux + the bright Centaurus stars as a southern counterpart of the Saptarshi. Used working-style at p. 184 ('दक्षिणर्क्ष सातवी' = α Centauri) and p. 185 (ω Centauri). | vernacular |
| नरतुरंग narturaṅga | Marathi Maharashtra | the man-horse 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 two first-magnitude stars are α and β Centauri. | vernacular |
| hirumea repą ipilkiŋ; parkom repą ipilkiŋ | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the two stars trying to steal the co-wife status — or the bed — from one another The two co-wives pulling at opposite corners of the bed, which is why the parallelogram is out of square. Delta Centauri is the brighter and lies a little closer to the bed because, the Mundas say, she is the first wife and has gained the upper hand. | tribal |
Sources
- Vahia & Halkare, 'Aspects of Gond Astronomy', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16(1), 29-44 (2013); preprint arXiv:1306.2416 link
- Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~89 link
- N. Venkatesha Ayyangar (transl.), Jyotirvinodini (Bengaluru: Karnataka Sahitya Parishattu, 1931; Karnataka Vaijnanika Grantha Mala 1), Appendix III (alphabetical sky-index), pp. 301-306 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
- 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), Appendix 1.2.6 (Landgi Pod), p. 82 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare and Purushottam Dahedar, 'Astronomy of the Korku tribe of India', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 19(2), 216-232 (2016), Table 2, p. 221 link
- S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 36 link
- Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VI, s.v. hirumea repą ipilkiŋ, cols. 1751-1757 link