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नाड्यन्तक Nāḍyantaka

the river's end · γ Phoenicis (α Phe also compatible) · Phoenix

individual staridentification likelyattestations 1 γ PheHIP 6867mag 3.41
Nāḍyantaka
Nāḍyantaka sits at right ascension 1.5h, declination -43°. 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.

The magnitude of Nāḍyantaka is five degrees sixteen minutes [of dhruvaka], of the first order of brightness. — Literal rendering by the compiler

'End of the river' — the catalogue opens south of the ecliptic zero, continuing Eridanus past its classical mouth, mirroring the Arabic river-end tradition for this region. 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