diff --git a/skycultures/indian/constellation_names.eng.fab b/skycultures/indian/constellation_names.eng.fab index 004bd18997e63..3e183ab7a7022 100644 --- a/skycultures/indian/constellation_names.eng.fab +++ b/skycultures/indian/constellation_names.eng.fab @@ -67,11 +67,13 @@ UAṣ "Uttarāṣāḍhā" _("Latter invincible one") # अभि + जि + क्विप् । Abh "Abhijit" _("Victorious") Śra "Śravaṇa" _("Ear") -# Ancient name: श्रविष्ठा, or "most famous". +# Ancient name: श्रविष्ठा (śraviṣṭhā), or "most famous". Dhani "Dhaniṣṭhā" _("Wealthiest") # vAchaspatyam: शतं भिषज इव ताराः यत्र । Śata "Śatabhiṣak" _("Hundred cures") -# Ancient name: प्रोष्ठपद + +# Ancient name: prōṣṭhapada. Prōṣṭha referred to a bench in some vedic literature, and later a bull/ ox. +# The dhiṣṇiya-incantations (KYV 1.3.3), which specially end referring to the deities of the below asterisms, are associated as hoofs of the winged suparNa/ garutman in kr̥ṣṇa-yajur-veda. Further, there is the (winged horse) Pegasus - dadhikrāvā association. PBhā "Pūrva bhādrapada" _("The first of the blessed feet") UBhā "Uttara bhādrapada" _("The second of the blessed feet") # Ultimately from रेव (प्लुतौ व्रजे).