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त्रिविक्रम Trivikrama

three star-pairs in Ursa Major · ι+κ, λ+μ, ν+ξ Ursae Majoris · Ursa Major

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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 three such twin pairs (yugmaka) are imagined as the feet of Trivikrama. — Literal rendering by the compiler

Viṣṇu's three strides as three two-star footprints — the Arabic 'leaps of the gazelle' re-imagined. Pai & Shylaja call the figure hitherto unknown; Shylaja links it to the Trivikrama of the Khmer Prasat Kok Po inscription (1004 CE). Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 27 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation