Bhagol
Home › Sanskrit stars › Aśvinidaivata

अश्विनिदैवत Aśvinidaivata

Sheratan · β Arietis · Aries

nakshatra aliasidentification certainattestations 1 Sheratan β AriHIP 8903mag 2.64
Aśvinidaivata
Aśvinidaivata sits at right ascension 1.9h, declination +21°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

In the living languages

Aśvayuj (Sheratan) (1 names)

Attestations

Later siddhāntas & al-Bīrūnī · core text c. 400–600 CE
हस्तश्रवणफाल्गुन्यः श्रविष्टा रोहिणीमघाः / चतुर्दशाम्शकैर् दृश्या विशाखाश्विनिदैवतम् //
13. Hasta, Çravana, the Phalgunis, Çravishthā, Rohini, and Maghā become visible at fourteen degrees; also Viçākhā and Açvini. — E. Burgess (1860)

Periphrastic name for Aśvinī at SS 9.13 — literally 'that whose deity is the Aśvins'. Burgess renders the compound simply as 'Açvini'. Note that the Buddhist tradition gives this asterism the deity Gandharva instead.

Sūrya Siddhānta 9.13 · text · translation

See also

Aśvinī