Lyra

Lyra · — · Lyra

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Lyra sits at right ascension 18.8h, declination +37°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

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Name	Language	Meaning	Register
वीणा vīṇā	Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print)	the veena 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. Prose: लाइरा glossed वीणा; अभिजित् is its great star.	vernacular

Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~241 link