Lexicons, Nirukta & Buddhist · c. 6th century CE
तारापथोऽन्तरिक्षं च मेघाध्वा च महाबिलम् ॥ १.२.१७१ ॥
Listed by Colebrooke under 'The sky' (Book I, Ch. I, Sect. II). — H.T. Colebrooke (1808)
NOT a star: the Vyoma-varga lists tārāpatha among synonyms of the sky, alongside antarikṣa, meghādhvan and mahābila. Recorded because it is the lexicon's own term for the star-bearing region, and because it is easily confused with the Milky-Way words Chāyāpatha and Tripathagā already on file.
Amarakośa 1.2.171 (Vyoma-varga) · text · translation