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स्कन्द Skanda

Capella · α Aurigae · Auriga

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Skanda
Skanda sits at right ascension 5.3h, declination +46°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

In the living languages

Capella (4 names)

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.

With a third of a degree added to one degree [of śara], Skanda shines with the first order of brightness. — Literal rendering by the compiler

Capella under a name of its own — the Sūrya-siddhānta tradition's Brahma-hṛdaya (this database's brahmahridaya) — evidence the catalogue renames as it translates. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 12 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation