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Leo and Virgo
Leo · — · Leo
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The names
tribal 5 · borrowed 1
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daatiya / Daatlo | Bhili Bhil villages, north-western Maharashtra | 'a sickle' If the Moon passes beside Leo it is a good omen; if it merely grazes the head of Leo, a bad one. | tribal |
| Murda; Duf; Shika; Ladavya | Gondi Nagpur region: Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Gondia (Maharashtra), Adilabad (Telangana), Balaghat, Seoni, Mandla (Madhya Pradesh) | the corpse; the drum-bearer; the leader of the procession; the weeping women The body of Leo is a dead man, head at Eta Leonis, one hand at Algieba and the other at Regulus, legs at Delta and Theta Leonis. Delta Leonis is the pall-bearer, the stars of Virgo are the procession, and the whole thing moves west to east across the sky. | tribal |
| सिंह् simh | Kashmiri Kashmir valley | — | borrowed |
| Murda | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a dead body' Two of ten villages. | tribal |
| Dhanushya baan | Kukna (Kokna) Kokna villages, north-western Maharashtra | 'bow and arrow' | tribal |
| Daatu / Daatla | Pauri Bareli (Pawra) Pawra villages, north-western Maharashtra | 'a sickle' | tribal |
Sources
- Shreya Shetye, Ganesh Halkare and Aniket Sule, 'Bhil, Pawra and Kokna astronomy', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 26(2), 441-468 (2023), p. 464 link
- Vahia & Halkare, 'Aspects of Gond Astronomy', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16(1), 29-44 (2013); preprint arXiv:1306.2416 link
- Sir George Abraham Grierson, A Dictionary of the Kashmiri Language, compiled partly from materials left by the late Pandit Isvara Kaula (Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1916-1932), s.v. simh, p. 912 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