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| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| हंस haṃsa | Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print) | the swan 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 |
| ರಾಜಹಂಸ rājahaṃsa | Kannada Karnataka (Mysore) | the royal swan The book's Kannada rendering of the Western name, presented as such — the rendering itself entered Kannada astronomy vocabulary. | vernacular |
| Barre; Sir; mais | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a buffalo' The best sign of the set: Landgi Pod calls the buffalo excellent, Raipur says lots of rain. | tribal |
| Kavadi Kunde / Kavedi Koda | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a tower of three pots' Seven of ten villages. | tribal |
| हंस haṃsa | Marathi Maharashtra | the swan Dikshit's own philology of the name: an admitted translation of the Western Swan, defended as belonging to the tradition because kavya and purana describe swans bathing in the आकाशगंगा — which the constellation in fact sits in. | vernacular |
| laṇḍae ipil | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the one who is laughing The third fire-thief, who cannot help laughing at the discomfiture awaiting the sleeper, and whom the others push aside for fear he will wake the man. | tribal |
Sources
- Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~240 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), Table 2 row 12, p. 71, and Appendix 1.2.2 (Janguguda), p. 80 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 2, p. 71 link
- S. B. Dikshit, Jyotirvilas, 2nd ed. (Bombay, 1893; 1st ed. 1892), p. 38 link
- Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VII, s.v. ipil, cols. 1919-1925 link