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आप्तपाणि Āptapāṇi

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Āptapāṇi
Āptapāṇi sits at right ascension 0.7h, declination +57°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Sarvasiddhāntarāja (1639) · 1639 CE

No published e-text exists; the verse is readable in Pai & Shylaja's edition (JApA 42:113, 2021, open access), whose PDF is not machine-extractable (no ToUnicode maps). Pending an OCR proofread — never retyped.

Āptapāṇi with its coordinates as stated, of the third order of brightness. — Literal rendering by the compiler

One of the catalogue's three Cassiopeia stars (with Pīṭhamūla γ Cas and Supīṭha δ Cas) — a constellation the classical nakṣatra lists never touch. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 6 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation