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कपाल Kapāla

Fomalhaut · α Piscis Austrini · Piscis Austrinus

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Fomalhaut α PsAHIP 113368mag 1.17
SculptorKapāla
Kapāla sits at right ascension 23.0h, declination -30°. 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.

Kapāla, the skull, of the first order of brightness in the south. — Literal rendering by the compiler

An attested 1639 Sanskrit name for Fomalhaut — a star whose modern 'Indian' names elsewhere trace only to 20th-century coinages; here the record antedates them by three centuries. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 52 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation