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मातृचक्र Mātṛcakra

Alphecca · α Coronae Borealis · Corona Borealis

individual staridentification likelyattestations 1 Alphecca α CrBHIP 76267mag 2.22
BootesMātṛcakra
Mātṛcakra sits at right ascension 15.6h, declination +27°. 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.

Mātṛcakra, the mothers' circle, of the second order of brightness. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The Crown as the circle of the Mothers; the Yantrarāja tradition carries the same object as Mātṛmaṇḍala rendering Arabic al-Fakka. Pai & Shylaja's table admits δ Boo as an alternative reduction. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 37 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation