तोरण Toraṇa

Unukalhai · α Serpentis · Serpens

individual staridentification likelyattestations 1 Unukalhai α SerHIP 77070mag 2.63

Toraṇa sits at right ascension 15.7h, declination +6°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Yantrakiraṇāvalī (1423) · 1423 CE

Ohashi's edition is an image scan; pending OCR proofread.

Toraṇa, the arched gateway, among the stars of the astrolabe table. — Literal rendering by the compiler

First attestation, a Sanskrit formation (Pai & Shylaja 2020): the Serpent's neck star as a toraṇa, the festal arch. The Sarvasiddhāntarāja later carries the region as Sarpaśīrṣa.

Yantrakiraṇāvalī, Yantrarājādhikāra star table (ed. Ohashi 1997; identified in Pai & Shylaja 2020) · text · translation