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कुम्भसम्भवः Kumbhasambhava

Canopus · α Carinae · Carina

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Canopus α CarHIP 30438mag -0.62
DoradoKumbhasambhava
Kumbhasambhava sits at right ascension 6.4h, declination -53°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

In the living languages

Canopus (15 names)

Attestations

Lexicons, Nirukta & Buddhist · c. 6th century CE
ध्रुव औत्तानपादिः स्यातगस्त्यः कुम्भसम्भवः ॥ १.३.२१५ ॥
Colebrooke glosses the group as 'regent of the star Canopus'. — H.T. Colebrooke (1808)

'Jar-born' — synonym of Agastya in the same lexical entry, from the legend of the sage's birth in a water-jar. A name of the sage transferred to the star by the lexicon's own equation of the two. Note that Sūrya Siddhānta 9.16 independently uses kumbhabhava ('pot-born') for the same star.

Amarakośa 1.3.215 (Dig-varga) · text · translation

See also

Agastya, Maitrāvaruṇi