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पूर्वध्रुवाक्ष Pūrvadhruvākṣa

the former pole marker · δ Draconis · Draco

individual staridentification likelyattestations 1 Altais δ DraHIP 94376mag 3.07
CepheusDracoPūrvadhruvākṣa
Pūrvadhruvākṣa sits at right ascension 19.2h, declination +68°. 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.

Pūrvadhruvākṣa, the earlier [marker of the ecliptic pole], beside it. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The second of the catalogue's ecliptic-pole pair; δ Dra sits near the pole's precessional path, which the name 'former' may itself record. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 19 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation