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अश्वमुख Aśvamukha

Rasalgethi · α Herculis · Hercules

individual staridentification likelyattestations 1 Rasalgethi α1 HerHIP 84345mag 2.78
Aśvamukha
Aśvamukha sits at right ascension 17.2h, declination +14°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Yantrakiraṇāvalī (1423) · 1423 CE

Ohashi's edition is an image scan; pending OCR proofread.

Aśvamukha, the horse's face, among the stars of the astrolabe table. — Literal rendering by the compiler

First attestation of the name — a Sanskrit formation, not an Arabic translation (Pai & Shylaja 2020). The kneeling Hercules' head star read as a horse's face. Coordinates reduce to α Her.

Yantrakiraṇāvalī, Yantrarājādhikāra star table (ed. Ohashi 1997; identified in Pai & Shylaja 2020) · text · translation