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Grus sits at right ascension 22.4h, declination -45°. 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
सारस sārasa	Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print)	the crane 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
Pukula Thang	Mizo (Lushai) the Lushai Hills (now Mizoram)	'Pukula's deer-trap' A deer-trap set by a mythical character called Pukula.	tribal

Sources

Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347 link
N.E. Parry, The Lakhers (London: Macmillan, 1932), p. 498 link