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स्वायम्भुव Svāyambhuva

Aldebaran · α Tauri · Taurus

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In the living languages

Aldebaran (11 names)

Attestations

Utpala's commentary · Utpala 966 CE; the Samāsa-saṃhitā is Varāhamihira's own lost work (6th c. CE)
वीथी नागा नाम्नी स्वातिर्भरणी च कृत्तिका चैव। स्वायम्भुवत्रिभाः स्युर्गजवीथ्यैरावती वृषभा॥ एकपदादिचतुष्कं गौः स्याज्जारद्गवी त्रिभा श्रवणात्। मैत्रात्त्रिभं मृगाऽजा हस्तश्चित्रा विशाखा च॥ द्वे चाषाढे दहना तिस्र उदग्वीथयः क्रमाच्छुभदाः। मध्या मध्यास्तिस्रो याम्याः पापा मृगाद्यास्ताः॥ इति॥

Transcribed from the Devanagari OCR of the printed edition at shloka_source_url (Achyuta Nand Jha ed., vol. 1) and checked word-for-word against two further independent scans of two different printed editions of the same commentary — Krishna Chandra Dvivedi's (https://archive.org/download/brihatsamhitawithbhattotpalavivrittipartidr.krishnachandradvivedi/Brihat%20Samhita%20%20with%20Bhattotpala%20Vivritti%20Part%20I%20-%20Dr.%20Krishna%20Chandra%20Dvivedi_djvu.txt) and A.V. Tripathi's (https://archive.org/download/JiUm_brihat-samhita-part-1-of-varaha-mihira-by-avadh-bihari-tripathi-saraswati-bhavan-granthamala/Brihat%20Samhita%20Part%201%20of%20Varaha%20Mihira%20by%20Avadh%20Bihari%20Tripathi%20-%20Saraswati%20Bhavan%20Granthamala_djvu.txt). Only glyph-level OCR artifacts that all three scans show to be artifacts (e.g. OCR रद्वव for रद्गव, श्व for श्च) have been normalised; every substantive reading is as scanned, and the two places where the scans genuinely differ are flagged in identification_notes.

See the full rendering under db_id 'ekapada'. — Literal rendering by the compiler

'That of Svayambhū (Brahmā)' = ROHIṆĪ. From the Samāsa-saṃhitā quoted by Utpala on BS 9.4: 'svāyambhuva-tribhāḥ syur gaja-vīthy airāvatī vṛṣabhā' — the triads beginning with Svāyambhuva are the Gaja-vīthī, Airāvatī and Vṛṣabhā. That is verbatim the structure Utpala spells out for Varāhamihira's 'paitāmahāt tribhās tisraḥ' at BS 9.2, where he glosses Paitāmaha as Rohiṇī — so Svāyambhuva = Paitāmaha = Rohiṇī. Same name-collision family as Prājeśa/Paitāmaha/Prājāpatya: these all denote Rohiṇī = Aldebaran, NOT the star Prajāpati (δ Aurigae) of Sūrya-siddhānta 8.

Utpala, Vivṛti on Bṛhat Saṃhitā 9.4, quoting the Samāsa-saṃhitā · text · translation

See also

Rohiṇī, Paitāmaha, Prajāpati