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यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

17. Vicṛtau, ‘the two releasers’; Mūla, ‘root’; or Mūlabarhaṇī, ‘uprooting,’ denote primarily and at the extremity of the tail of the Scorpion, but including also the nine or eleven stars from to .(** 18, 19. Aṣāḍhās (‘unconquered’), distinguished as Pūrvās, ‘former,’ and Uttarās, ‘latter,’ are really two constellations, of which the former is composed of , and Sagittarii, or of and only, and the latter of , and Sagittarii, or of two, and , only. It is probable that originally only four stars forming a square were meant as included in the whole constellation --viz., and , with and .