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ApusHydrusTriangulum AustraleOctans
Octans sits at right ascension 21.0h, declination -84°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

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NameLanguageMeaningRegister
अष्टक
aṣṭaka
Hindi
Pan-Hindi (national print)
the octant
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: the south celestial pole lies 'अष्टक (ओक्टेंस) नामक मंडल में'.
vernacular

Sources

  1. Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347, and p. ~89 link