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Perseus

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AndromedaAriesAurigaCassiopeiaTriangulumPerseus
Perseus sits at right ascension 3.4h, declination +45°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

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NameLanguageMeaningRegister
ययाति
yayāti
Hindi
Pan-Hindi (national print)
Yayati
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: 'इस मंडल को अब हम ययाति कहते हैं.'
vernacular
ययाति
yayāti
Marathi
Maharashtra
Yayati
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 mythological family is mapped as a set: ययाति (Perseus) beside देवयानी (Andromeda), शर्मिष्ठा (Cassiopeia), वृषपर्वा (Cepheus).
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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. ~311 link
  2. S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 181 link