याम्य Yāmya

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Utpala's commentary · mūla 6th c. CE; Utpala's commentary 966 CE

पवनः स्वातिः। याम्यं भरणी। अनलः कृत्तिकाः। एतानि नक्षत्राणि नागवीथी। पैतामहात्त्रिभास्तिस्रः। पैतामहं रोहिणी तत आरभ्य त्रिभास्त्रिभिस्त्रिभिर्भनक्षत्रैस्तिस्रो वीथयो भवन्ति। तद्यथा—रोहिणीमृगशिरआर्द्रा गजवीथी। पुनर्वसुतिष्याश्लेषा ऐरावती। मघा पूर्वफल्गुनी उत्तरफल्गुनी चेति वृषभा। गोवीथ्यामिति। अश्विन्यः पौष्णं रेवती द्वे भद्रपदे पूर्वभद्रपदोत्तरभद्रपदे। एतानि चत्वारि नक्षत्राणि गोवीथी। … [९.६ टीका] याम्या भरणी तदादिको नवनक्षत्रान्त उत्तरो मार्गो निगदित उक्तः।

Transcribed from the Devanagari OCR of the printed edition at shloka_source_url (Achyuta Nand Jha ed., vol. 1) and checked word-for-word against two further independent scans of two different printed editions of the same commentary — Krishna Chandra Dvivedi's (https://archive.org/download/brihatsamhitawithbhattotpalavivrittipartidr.krishnachandradvivedi/Brihat%20Samhita%20%20with%20Bhattotpala%20Vivritti%20Part%20I%20-%20Dr.%20Krishna%20Chandra%20Dvivedi_djvu.txt) and A.V. Tripathi's (https://archive.org/download/JiUm_brihat-samhita-part-1-of-varaha-mihira-by-avadh-bihari-tripathi-saraswati-bhavan-granthamala/Brihat%20Samhita%20Part%201%20of%20Varaha%20Mihira%20by%20Avadh%20Bihari%20Tripathi%20-%20Saraswati%20Bhavan%20Granthamala_djvu.txt). Only glyph-level OCR artifacts that all three scans show to be artifacts (e.g. OCR रद्वव for रद्गव, श्व for श्च) have been normalised; every substantive reading is as scanned, and the two places where the scans genuinely differ are flagged in identification_notes.

'Pavana is Svātī. Yāmya is Bharaṇī. Anala is Kṛttikā. These asterisms are the Nāga-vīthī. "Three triads from Paitāmaha": Paitāmaha is Rohiṇī; beginning from it, three vīthīs of three asterisms each are formed, namely: Rohiṇī, Mṛgaśiras, Ārdrā — the Gaja-vīthī; Punarvasu, Tiṣya, Āśleṣā — the Airāvatī; Maghā, Pūrva-Phalgunī, Uttara-Phalgunī — the Vṛṣabhā. "In the Go-vīthī": Aśvinī, Pauṣṇa (which is Revatī), and the two Bhadrapadās, Pūrva-Bhādrapadā and Uttara-Bhādrapadā — these four asterisms are the Go-vīthī.' On 9.6: 'Yāmyā is Bharaṇī; the northern mārga is declared to be the nine asterisms beginning with it.' — Literal rendering by the compiler

'That of Yama' = BHARAṆĪ, whose regent is Yama. Twice in ch. 9: Utpala's gloss on BS 9.2 'yāmyaṃ bharaṇī', and his gloss on BS 9.6 'yāmyā bharaṇī tad-ādiko nava-nakṣatrānta uttaro mārgo nigaditaḥ' — the northern mārga is the nine asterisms from Bharaṇī. Parāśara's Nāga-vīthī list uses it too. Modern star follows the database's 'bharani' entry. CAUTION: yāmya elsewhere in the same chapter is simply the adjective 'southern' (yāmya-mārga); only the two glosses cited here use it as an asterism-name.

Bṛhat Saṃhitā 9.2 and 9.6 with Utpala's Vivṛti · text · translation