उत्तरफल्गुनी Uttara-Phalgunī

Burgess: 'In the latter group, the junction-star is evidently β Leonis'; the text's calling it 'northern' he regards 'as simply an error' of the describers.

TWO stars, padaka-shaped, deity Aryamā, gotra Kauśika. Two stars = β and 93 Leonis; the Aryamā lordship agrees with the Vedic lists.

Devanagari transcribed by the compiler from the page FACSIMILE of the Ray edition (Calcutta 1899), scan leaf n216 = printed p. 114–115: https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.292705/page/n216.jpg . The archive.org OCR of this volume is unusable for Devanagari, so no verse here is taken from the OCR text; every figure was re-read at full scan resolution and cross-checked against a second independent scan of the same edition (https://archive.org/download/siddhantadarpanachandrashekarsimha1897_252_Z/page/n217.jpg). Round brackets and the figures in them are the PRINTED EDITION'S own: (n) is the serial number of the asterism/star and the figure following it is the edition's decoding of the bhūtasaṅkhyā word-numeral that precedes it. These are the two printed segments of the dhruva list (vv. 2–6) and the śara list (vv. 7–10) that carry this asterism's own figures; the complete verses are given under db_id 'yogatara-catalog'.

SIDDHĀNTA DARPAṆA XII (Sāmanta, 1869): dhruva (polar longitude) 153°00', śara (polar latitude) 13°00' north. The direction comes from XII.11, which makes the śara southern for the asterisms numbered 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16–21 and 24 and northern for all the rest; XII.12–13 give the asterism 2 star(s). TRUE VALUES for 1870 CE, reduced to Sāmanta's OWN sidereal zero (his Citrā = 179°, i.e. Spica; implied ayanāṃśa 22°12'), as polar longitude / polar latitude: β Leo 153°01' / 13°23'. VAṬEŚVARA-SIDDHĀNTA VIII.2.1–2 (904 CE) puts the same junction star at the 6th sign (Virgo) 4° (= 154°00' measured from the sidereal origin) with a śara of 13°00' north (VIII.2.5–6, direction by VIII.2.8).

This is the printed segment of the continuous dhruvaka list (VIII.2.1–2) that carries this star's own figure; the star's kṣepa is item no. 12 of the unbroken numeral run of VIII.2.5–6, which cannot be split, so the whole passage is also given verbatim under db_id 'yogatara-catalog'. Devanagari transcribed by the compiler from the page FACSIMILE of K. S. Shukla's INSA edition of the Sanskrit text, scan leaf n317 = printed p. 293: https://archive.org/download/VatesvaraSiddhantaSanskritText/page/n317.jpg . The archive.org OCR is unusable for Devanagari. The SQUARE brackets and the figures inside them are the EDITION'S own decoding of the bhūtasaṅkhyā word-numerals, reproduced here so that no numeral is silently converted. Shukla's English translation and notes are in copyright: they are neither quoted nor relied on here — only the constituted mūla text and the edition's numeric glosses.

VAṬEŚVARA-SIDDHĀNTA VIII.2 (904 CE) gives the junction star's dhruvaka (polar longitude) as the 6th sign (Virgo) 4° — Vaṭeśvara states the dhruvakas as degrees WITHIN each zodiacal sign, not as absolute longitudes, so this is 154°00' from the sidereal origin — and its kṣepa (polar latitude, VIII.2.5–6) as 13°00', north by the rule of VIII.2.8 (a verse the edition notes is identical with Brahmagupta's Khaṇḍakhādyaka I.9.13). TRUE VALUES for 904 CE reduced to Vaṭeśvara's own sidereal zero (his Citrā = 3° of Libra = 183°), as polar longitude / polar latitude: β Leo 156°55' / 13°23'. For comparison Sāmanta (1869) gives 153°00' / 13°00' north. Vaṭeśvara's list is essentially the inherited Sūrya-Siddhānta/Brahmagupta set: it is a fourth independent witness to those values rather than a fresh observation.

Verbatim parallels from the two earlier Chinese versions of the same Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna material, and the Tang commentator's note on the Chinese star-count: 摩登伽經 (Mātaṅga-sūtra) T21n1300, T21.0404c25: 「翼有二星，形如人步，於一日半共月而行，鮫魚祭之，屬婆伽神，姓憍尸迦。」 | 舍頭諫太子二十八宿經 T21n1301, T21.0415b26: 「北德宿者，有二要星，南北對立，行三十五須臾而侍從矣，以豆為食，主種殖天，姓號十里。」 | Yang Jingfeng's interlinear note in T21n1299 at T21.0389b16: 「景風曰：中國天文，翼二十二星，主府縣事，南方之宿也」

Chinese lunar lodge (xiu) 翼 Yi; T1301 renders the name semantically as 北德 ('Northern Virtue'). TWO stars in all three, matching dvitāraṃ padaka-saṃsthānam. T1299 names the deity 利耶摩 = ARYAMĀ (one Ming witness adds 神也 'is the deity'), matching aryamā-daivatam exactly; T1300 gives the gotra 憍尸迦 = KAUŚIKA, matching kauśikaṃ gotreṇa exactly; T1300's 鮫魚 fish-offering matches godhūma-matsyāhāram. The 45-muhūrta value is confirmed by T1300's summary list (畢井氐翼斗壁) though the body of T1301 misprints 三十五 for 四十五. Chinese astronomy gives Yi twenty-two stars — the largest Indian/Chinese divergence in the series.

Devanagari from Sanskrit Wikisource; identical with GRETIL (maitre muhūrte śaśalāñchanena yogaṃ gatāsūttaraphalgunīṣu ...).

A fully technical electional statement in verse: the toilet of the bride Parvati is performed 'at the Maitra muhurta, when the hare-marked one (the moon) had come into conjunction (yoga) with the Uttara-Phalgunis'. muhurta, yoga and a named naksatra together are exactly the apparatus of the vivaha-patala literature, and Uttara-Phalguni is the standard auspicious wedding asterism. Note the plural locative uttaraphalgunīṣu.