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Monoceros

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Monoceros sits at right ascension 6.9h, declination -0°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

vernacular 1 · tribal 1

NameLanguageMeaningRegister
एकशृंग
ekaśṛṅga
Hindi
Pan-Hindi (national print)
the unicorn
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
Nufa Thembu InchuhMizo (Lushai)
the Lushai Hills, Assam (now Mizoram)
—tribal

Sources

  1. Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347 link
  2. J. Herbert Lorrain, Dictionary of the Lushai Language, Bibliotheca Indica Work No. 261 (Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1940), s.v. Nufa Thembu Inchuh, p. 345 link