Tibetan
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Spoken in Written Tibetan; Jäschke's dialects are those of Lahaul, Spiti and Ladakh, where he worked from Kyelang, and Das's are Central Tibetan as read in Darjeeling.
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The sky in Tibetan
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| smin-drug, skar-ma smin-drug | The Pleiades | Jäschke gives smin-drug-zla-ba for the month in which the moon stands full near the Pleiades — October or November — which is Kārttika under another name. Das adds that it is the third lunar mansion, that its regent is fire, that it contains six stars, and that it is figured as a flame or else as a razor or knife. | vernacular |
| skar-ma brtan-pa; gzaʼ-yi rten | The pole star | 'the fixed star'; 'the support of the planets' Das explains the second name: it is called the fixed one because it remains immovable above all the planets. | vernacular |
Sources
- H.A. Jäschke, A Tibetan-English Dictionary, with special reference to the prevailing dialects (London: Secretary of State for India, 1881), s.v. smin-drug; and Das, s.v. smin-drug link
- Sarat Chandra Das, A Tibetan-English Dictionary with Sanskrit Synonyms (Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1902), s.v. skar-ma brtan-pa, gzaʼ-yi rten link