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देवमातृ Devamātṛ

Punarvasu (β Geminorum) · β Geminorum · Gemini

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Vaṭeśvara & Sāmanta · composed 1869 CE (Śaka 1791); edited by Joges Chandra Ray, Calcutta 1899
अश्वि(१)चन्द्र(५)भगी(११)न्द्राग्नि(१६)- तोय(२०)विश्वा(२१)जपादजाः(२५) । अहिर्बुध्न्यो(२६)त्तरस्था योगतारा ध्रुवांशगाः ॥ १९ ॥ इन्द्र(१८)गोविन्द(२२)मित्रा(१७)ग्नि(३)जीवानां(८) मध्यगा मताः । अदित्या(७)दित्य(१२)दैत्याना(१८)मीशानदिगवस्थिताः ॥ २० ॥ वित्त(२३)स्याभिजितः(०) पश्चात् पूर्व्वस्यां ब्रह्म(४)सर्पयोः(९) । याम्या स्थूला पितुः(१०) पूष(२७)- यमा(२)र्यम्णाञ्च(१२) दक्षिणाः ॥ २१ ॥ कपीटयोनिकाष्ठायां योगतारा प्रचेतसः(२४) । शङ्करत्वष्टृवातानां(९)(१४)(१५) स्वरूपाण्येकभावतः ॥ २२ ॥

Devanagari transcribed by the compiler from the page FACSIMILE (archive.org scan leaf n219 = printed p. 117) because the archive.org OCR of this volume is unusable for Devanagari; the page image itself was fetched in this session at https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.292705/page/n219.jpg . Every numeral was re-read at full scan resolution. Cross-checked against a second, independent scan of the same Ray edition at https://archive.org/download/siddhantadarpanachandrashekarsimha1897_252_Z/ , which agrees character for character on the figures. Round brackets and the figures in them are the PRINTED EDITION'S own: (n) is the serial number of the asterism/star, the figure after it the edition's decoding of the preceding bhūtasaṅkhyā word-numeral, so no numeral has been silently converted here. A handful of the compound word-forms in this worn 1899 type are uncertain and are marked in this database as read, not emended; the FIGURES, which carry the astronomy, were verified at high magnification in both scans. Several deity-numbers in this compressed list are hard to read in this print (notably the second serial number in v. 20 and the first word of v. 22) and are given as read, not emended.

(19) 'Of Aśvi (1), Candra (5), Bhaga (11), Indrāgni (16), Toya (20), Viśva (21), Ajapāda (25) and Ahirbudhnya (26) the junction star, [which carries] the dhruva-degrees, is the northern one. (20) Of Indra (18), Govinda (22), Mitra (17), Agni (3) and Jīva (8) it is held to be the middle one; of Aditi (7), Āditya (12) and … it is the one placed to the north-east. (21) Of Vitta (23) and of Abhijit (0) it is behind [i.e. western]; of Brahmā (4) and Sarpa (9) it is in the east; of Pitṛ (10) it is the bright southern one; of Pūṣan (27), Yama (2) and Aryaman (12) they are southern. (22) The junction star of Pracetas (24) is in the … quarter. Of Śaṅkara, Tvaṣṭṛ and Vāta the forms are single.' — Literal rendering by the compiler

'Mother of the gods' = Aditi, the presiding deity of Punarvasu, used at XII.25 as the name of the asterism itself ('the star gone south of Devamātṛ's asterism (7)'). The database already has several such deity-epithet names for nakṣatras; this form is not yet among them. Sāmanta's verses XII.19–22, which say for each asterism WHICH member star is the yogatārā (northern, middle, eastern, western, southern or north-eastern), refer to the asterisms almost entirely by their presiding deities, and so preserve a compact list of deity-epithet star names.

Siddhānta Darpaṇa of Candraśekhara Sāmanta, Grahagaṇita, Tripraśnādhikāra, 12th prakāśa (Bhagrahayogavarṇana) 19–22 · text · translation