Auriga

Auriga · — · Auriga

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The names

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Name	Language	Meaning	Register
Hulgi	Bhili Bhil villages 9 and 11, Mavchi Bhil 7 and 12, Kokna 10, north-western Maharashtra	the hulgi bird, with two eggs Only a small triangle within Auriga is recognised — ε Aurigae is the bird and η and ζ Aurigae its two eggs.	tribal
Samdur, Samudar	Gondi Nagpur region: Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Gondia (Maharashtra), Adilabad (Telangana), Balaghat, Seoni, Mandla (Madhya Pradesh)	the sea Comes overhead at 4 a.m. in late May and is the sign that the rains are coming and farming begins. Its brightness is a forecast: bright means a good monsoon and the Gonds sow cotton and other water-hungry crops, dull means a weak one and they sow crops that need less water.	tribal
Kunva	Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh	'a well' Five of twelve villages.	tribal
dhorkya	Mavchi Mavchi Bhil village 12 and Kokna village 10, north-western Maharashtra	'cattle herder'	tribal
Dingdi-puan-tah	Mizo (Lushai) the Lushai Hills, Assam (now Mizoram)	'Dingdi's cloth-stretching', puan being a cloth The figure is a scene indoors: a named girl at her loom, with the cloth pinned to the wall at two points that are themselves stars.	tribal

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Vahia & Halkare, 'Aspects of Gond Astronomy', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16(1), 29-44 (2013); preprint arXiv:1306.2416 link
M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare and Purushottam Dahedar, 'Astronomy of the Korku tribe of India', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 19(2), 216-232 (2016), Table 2, p. 221 link
J. Herbert Lorrain, Dictionary of the Lushai Language, Bibliotheca Indica Work No. 261 (Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1940), s.v. Dingdi-puan-tah, p. 116 link