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वायस Vāyasa

Albireo · β Cygni · Cygnus

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Albireo β1 CygHIP 95947mag 3.05
LyraSagittaVāyasa
Vāyasa sits at right ascension 19.5h, declination +28°. 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.

Vāyasa, the crow, at the bird's head. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The catalogue sees a crow where Ptolemy's tradition sees the Swan's beak; its Kākapuccha ('crow's tail') for Deneb completes the same bird eight verses later. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 45 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation