Capella

Capella · α Aurigae · Auriga

names 4languages 3 Capella α AurHIP 24608mag 0.08

Capella sits at right ascension 5.3h, declination +46°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

In the classical tradition this is ब्रह्महृदय Brahmahṛdaya, attested in 3 texts.

The names

vernacular 1 · tribal 2 · borrowed 1

Name	Language	Meaning	Register
ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಹೃದಯ Brahmahṛdaya	Kannada Karnataka (Mysore)	Brahmā's heart The Sūrya-siddhānta tradition's name, in Kannada.	borrowed
barai ipil	Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand	the blacksmith star The village blacksmith, sitting and watching his smithy fire.	tribal
capua ipilkiŋ	Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand	the two bellows stars The blacksmith's double bellows; Epsilon Aurigae is the sharp vertex of the isosceles triangle whose base they form, and is the smithy fire.	tribal
عيوق ʻaiyūq	Urdu Urdu, from Arabic	Arabic al-ʻayyūq One of the very few individual stars for which Platts gives a precise positional identification, down to the Bayer letter.	vernacular

N. Venkatesha Ayyangar (transl.), Jyotirvinodini (Bengaluru: Karnataka Sahitya Parishattu, 1931; Karnataka Vaijnanika Grantha Mala 1), Appendix III (alphabetical sky-index), pp. 301-306 link
Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VII, s.v. ipil, cols. 1919-1925 link
John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (London, 1884), s.v. ʻaiyūq, p. 768 link