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जन्तुपुच्छ Jantupuccha

Diphda · β Ceti · Cetus

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Diphda β CetHIP 3419mag 2.04
Jantupuccha
Jantupuccha sits at right ascension 0.7h, declination -18°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Sarvasiddhāntarāja (1639) · 1639 CE

No published e-text exists; the verse is readable in Pai & Shylaja's edition (JApA 42:113, 2021, open access), whose PDF is not machine-extractable (no ToUnicode maps). Pending an OCR proofread — never retyped.

Jantupuccha, the creature's tail, with its stated coordinates. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The sea-monster's tail, exactly where Ptolemaic Cetus keeps it. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 51 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation