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लोपामुद्रावल्लभ Lopāmudrāvallabha

Canopus · α Carinae · Carina

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DoradoLopāmudrāvallabha
Lopāmudrāvallabha sits at right ascension 6.4h, declination -53°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

In the living languages

Canopus (15 names)

Attestations

Later siddhāntas & al-Bīrūnī · c. 1039 CE
नक्षत्रांशः संयुतं राशियुगमं ८७ लोपामुद्रावल्लभस्य ध्रुवः स्यात् । ... विक्षिप्तोऽयं दक्षिणे स्वापमाग्रात् ।
No public-domain translation exists. Sense: 'Two signs plus the degrees of a nakshatra (= 87°) would be the dhruva of Lopāmudrā's beloved; ... he is displaced to the south of his own declination-limit by seventy-seven degrees.' — Paraphrase by the compiler

'The beloved of Lopāmudrā' — Śrīpati's kenning for Agastya/Canopus, Lopāmudrā being the sage's wife. Śrīpati gives the star dhruva 87° and śara 77° S, identical to Brahmagupta's figures; the commentary concludes 'Śrīpati's statement conforms exactly to Brahmagupta's'. Recovered at second hand — these Siddhāntaśekhara verses are quoted inside the modern commentary on the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta and their OCR is poor, so the NAME is unambiguous but the verse wording needs checking against a published Siddhāntaśekhara edition.

Siddhāntaśekhara of Śrīpati, as quoted in the commentary on Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, Bhagrahayutyadhikāra 35–37 · text · translation

See also

Agastya, Muni