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मृगहर्तृ Mṛgahartṛ

Sirius · α Canis Majoris · Canis Major

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Sirius α CMaHIP 32349mag -1.44

In the living languages

Sirius (16 names)

Attestations

Later siddhāntas & al-Bīrūnī · 628 CE
षड्भयुतमूनमुदयैः षड्राशियुतं तदस्तमयसूर्यः । घटिकाद्वितयेनैवं षड्भागयुतेन मृगहर्तुः ॥ ३७ ॥
No public-domain translation exists. Sense: '...that, increased by six signs and diminished by the oblique ascensions, is the sun of his setting; and in the same way, by two ghaṭikās increased by a sixth, for the Deer-snatcher (Sirius).' — Paraphrase by the compiler

'The deer-snatcher' — a fourth Sanskrit name for Sirius, alongside Mṛgavyādha ('deer-hunter'), Lubdhaka ('hunter') and Bhāskara's Mṛgaripu ('the deer's enemy'). It occurs in the closing pāda of Bhagrahayutyadhikāra 37, and the edition's commentary glosses it in parentheses as (vyādhasya) and quotes the phrase back as Brahmagupta's own wording: 'ghaṭikādvitayenaiva ṣaḍbhāgayutena mṛgahartuḥ' — 'for the Deer-snatcher, by the same two ghaṭikās increased by a sixth' (= 13 kālāṃśas, versus 12 for Agastya).

Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, Bhagrahayutyadhikāra 37 · text · translation

See also

Mṛgavyādha, Lubdhaka