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नृपाद Nṛpāda

Rigil Kentaurus · α Centauri · Centaurus

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Rigil Kentaurus α CenHIP 71683mag -0.01
CentaurusCruxTriangulum AustraleNṛpāda
Nṛpāda sits at right ascension 14.7h, declination -61°. 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.

Nṛpāda, the foot of the man, with the first order of brightness. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The Centaur's foot, as in the Greek; Shylaja reads the Khmer Prasat Kok Po inscription's bright 'foot of a man' (1004 CE) against this star's tradition in her SN 1006 argument. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 40 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation