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मत्स्योदर Matsyodara

Mirach · β Andromedae · Andromeda

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Matsyodara sits at right ascension 1.2h, declination +36°. 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.

Matsyodara, the belly of the fish, with its stated pair of coordinates. — Literal rendering by the compiler

Renders the Arabic Batn al-Ḥūt ('belly of the fish') into Sanskrit — the same star the nakṣatra tradition reaches as Uttarabhādrapadā's neighbour. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 5 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation