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औत्तानपादिः Auttānapādi

Pole Star · α Ursae Minoris / the celestial pole · Ursa Minor

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Polaris α UMiHIP 11767mag 1.97
Auttānapādi
Auttānapādi sits at right ascension 2.5h, declination +89°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Lexicons, Nirukta & Buddhist · c. 6th century CE
ध्रुव औत्तानपादिः स्यातगस्त्यः कुम्भसम्भवः ॥ १.३.२१५ ॥
'The pole.' — H.T. Colebrooke (1808)

Distinct from the Purāṇic Uttānapāda already on file (a position on the Śiśumāra's upper jaw): this is the patronymic 'son of Uttānapāda' used by the lexicon as a full synonym of the pole star itself.

Amarakośa 1.3.215 (Dig-varga) · text · translation

See also

Dhruva, Uttānapāda