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Corona Australis

Corona Australis · — · Corona Australis

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Corona Australis sits at right ascension 19.0h, declination -40°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

vernacular 1 · tribal 1

Name	Language	Meaning	Register
दक्षिणी किरीट dakṣiṇī kirīṭ	Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print)	the southern crown 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
Nangi	Korku Melghat, Amravati district, Maharashtra, and adjoining Betul and Khandwa districts, Madhya Pradesh	—	tribal

Sources

Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347 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