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मानुषशीर्ष Mānuṣaśīrṣa

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TriangulumMānuṣaśīrṣa
Mānuṣaśīrṣa sits at right ascension 3.1h, declination +41°. 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.

Mānuṣaśīrṣa, the human head, with its coordinates as stated. — Literal rendering by the compiler

Ra's al-Ghūl, the Demon's Head, translated into Sanskrit; the Yantrarāja tradition's Pretaśira ('corpse-head') is the same image a generation earlier. The famous variable enters the Sanskrit record under a severed head's name in both. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 11 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation