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The names
vernacular 2 · tribal 3
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| वृहद् श्वान vṛhad śvān | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | the greater dog 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. | vernacular |
| ಮಹಾ ಶ್ವಾನ mahā śvāna | Kannada Karnataka (Mysore) | the great dog The book's Kannada rendering of the Western name, presented as such — the rendering itself entered Kannada astronomy vocabulary. | vernacular |
| Tiva Pate | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'the three-legged stool' The stool a thresher stands on to drop the harvest into the wind, so that the husk blows away. Given at Dubaguda and Jamini with the star named. | tribal |
| Tiva; Miti; Kovela; Konda | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | farming tools At Raipur four names are given for the region without individual identifications, and the recorders note that the Gonds describe the same tools in detail. | tribal |
| Medi | Lambadi (Banjara) Banjara tandas of Vidarbha, Maharashtra (villages in the Nagpur–Amravati–Yavatmal region) | Connected by the Banjaras with the processing of the harvest. Reported in one village only. | tribal |
Sources
- Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~72 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, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Appendix 1.2.1 (Dubaguda), p. 80, and 1.2.3 (Jamini), p. 81 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Appendix 1.2.9 (Raipur), p. 83 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Table 1, p. 69 link