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| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
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| दक्षिण मीन dakṣiṇa mīna | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | the southern fish 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. Its bright star Fomalhaut is मत्स्यमुख 'the fish's mouth'. Dikshit's याम्यमत्स्य (1893) is the older Devanagari name. | vernacular |
| याम्यमत्स्य yāmyamatsya | Marathi Maharashtra | the southern fish 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 first-magnitude star described is Fomalhaut, one of the two bright stars Dikshit says the old Sanskrit texts missed. | vernacular |