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Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus · — · Ophiuchus

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AquilaLibraSagittariusScutumSerpens CaputSerpens CaudaOphiuchus
Ophiuchus sits at right ascension 17.0h, declination -9°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

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NameLanguageMeaningRegister
सर्पधर
sarpadhara
Hindi
Pan-Hindi (national print)
the serpent-bearer
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
भुजगधारी
bhujagadhārī
Marathi
Maharashtra
the serpent-holder
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). A calque of Ophiuchus; the star described is Kepler's supernova of 1604.
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Sources

  1. Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~192 link
  2. S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 182 link