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Lupus

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CentaurusScorpiusLupus
Lupus sits at right ascension 15.5h, declination -42°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

vernacular 2 · tribal 1

NameLanguageMeaningRegister
वृक
vṛka
Hindi
Pan-Hindi (national print)
the wolf
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
ವೃಕ
vṛka
Kannada
Karnataka (Mysore)
the wolf
The book's Kannada rendering of the Western name, presented as such — the rendering itself entered Kannada astronomy vocabulary.
vernacular
hirumea parkom ipilkoMundari
Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand
the co-wives' bed stars
The bed two co-wives are fighting over — that is, the mastership of the house.
tribal

Sources

  1. Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347 link
  2. N. Venkatesha Ayyangar (transl.), Jyotirvinodini (Bengaluru: Karnataka Sahitya Parishattu, 1931; Karnataka Vaijnanika Grantha Mala 1), Appendix III (alphabetical sky-index), pp. 301-306 link
  3. Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VI, s.v. hirumea parkom ipilko, cols. 1751-1757 link