Āpa and Apāṃvatsa – enigmatic stars catalogued in Sūryasiddhānta

Shylaja, B. S.; Pai, R. Venketeswara

doi:10.1007/s12036-019-9614-1

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Four Categories Of Star Names1

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“…As discussed by Shylaja and Venketeswara Pai (2019a;2019b;2019c;2019d) and Venketeswara Pai and Shylaja (2016;2020;, the names of the 106 stars can be as- For category (1) the best example is Algol (β Per). Its name is given as mānuṣa śīrṣa (Rasulgol, head of a human) in the Yantrarāja and the catalog of Malayendu, while the Sarvasiddhāntarāja, by Nityananda, gives pretaśira (head of a ghost); both are probably derived from the Arabic name.…”

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UNAMBIGUOUS IDENTIFICATION OF THE STAR <italic>ĀRDRĀ</italic>

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2024

J. Astron. Hist. Herit.

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The names of the stars in old Indian texts are listed in the manuals for the use of astrolabes-for example in the Yantrarāja, Sarvasiddhāntarāja and Yantra Kiraṇāvalī-with coordinates and magnitudes. They were forgotten and the names of the stars too were forgotten, leading to confusion in the identification of stars in recent years. Betelgeuse is omitted in the list of 27 bright stars in the old texts. Recent studies have associated it with Ārdrā, while the coordinates from the old manuals clearly point to γ Gem (Alhena).

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