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द्विजेश्वर Dvijeśvara

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individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Gacrux γ CruHIP 61084mag 1.59
CentaurusDvijeśvara
Dvijeśvara sits at right ascension 12.5h, 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.

Dvijeśvara, lord of the twice-born, in the deep south. — Literal rendering by the compiler

A Southern Cross star under a Sanskrit name — the catalogue's Persian-Ptolemaic sources reached declinations the nakṣatra tradition never needed. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 37 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation