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मत्स्यस्यपुच्छ Matsyasyapuccha

Alnair · α Gruis · Grus

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Alnair α GruHIP 109268mag 1.73
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Matsyasyapuccha sits at right ascension 22.1h, declination -47°. 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.

Matsyasyapuccha, the tail of the fish, in the far south. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The Crane's brightest star read as a fish's tail — the southern Fish imagery of the Arabic tradition extended past Fomalhaut. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 49 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation