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Auriga
Auriga · — · Auriga
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The names
vernacular 3 · tribal 5
| 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 |
| प्रजापति prajāpati | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | Prajapati The book's भारतीय नाम for the constellation in its complete 88-constellation concordance. Muley himself notes (p. ~16) that uniform Indian names across languages were still to be settled — the set is part report of circulating usage, part proposal. Prose: 'प्रायः प्रजापति मंडल कहा जाता है', with रथी/सारथी as the occasional alternative — genuine received-usage phrasing. | vernacular |
| ಸಾರಥಿ Sārathi | Kannada Karnataka (Mysore) | the charioteer The book's Kannada rendering of the Western name, presented as such — the rendering itself entered Kannada astronomy vocabulary. | vernacular |
| Kunva | Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh | 'a well' Five of twelve villages. | tribal |
| सारथी sārathī | Marathi Maharashtra | the charioteer One of the Sanskrit names for the Western constellations that Dikshit credits to Bal Shastri Jambhekar (d. 1846) and reports as current: 'पाश्चात्यांनीं कल्पिलेल्या बाकीच्या राशींस संस्कृत संज्ञा शास्त्री जांभेकर यांनीं दिल्या आहेत. त्याच हल्लीं मराठींत येतात.' (p. 35-36). A calque of Auriga; the star described is Nova Aurigae 1891. | vernacular |
| 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 |
Sources
- Shreya Shetye, Ganesh Halkare and Aniket Sule, 'Bhil, Pawra and Kokna astronomy', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 26(2), 441-468 (2023), p. 464 link
- Vahia & Halkare, 'Aspects of Gond Astronomy', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16(1), 29-44 (2013); preprint arXiv:1306.2416 link
- Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~51 link
- N. Venkatesha Ayyangar (transl.), Jyotirvinodini (Bengaluru: Karnataka Sahitya Parishattu, 1931; Karnataka Vaijnanika Grantha Mala 1), Appendix III (alphabetical sky-index), pp. 301-306 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
- S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 183 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