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नौका Naukā

Naos region · ζ Puppis · Puppis

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Naos ζ PupHIP 39429mag 2.21
PuppisPyxisNaukā
Naukā sits at right ascension 8.1h, declination -40°. 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.

Naukā, the ship, in the southern sky with its coordinates as stated. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The Ship where Greek tradition also sails Argo — and the modern name Naos ('ship') for ζ Pup preserves the same image; the Sanskrit catalogue reaches it independently through the Ptolemaic frame. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 22 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation