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| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| वैतरणी vaitaraṇī | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | the Vaitarani, river of the dead 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: the sky-river 'was given the name of the pauranik Vaitarani' in modern Indian astronomy; नदीमुख 'river's mouth' is its star Achernar. Dikshit's यमुना (1893) is the older Devanagari name. | vernacular |
| यमुनानदी yamunānadī | Marathi Maharashtra | the river Yamuna 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 first-magnitude star described is Achernar. The book's own index has 'यमुना तारकापुंज ३९'. | vernacular |