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Nakshatras (नक्षत्राणि) (view source)
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The nineteenth book of the Atharvaveda contains a list 61) xix. 7, 1 et seq. The number is given as 28 in xix. 7, 1
The nineteenth book of the Atharvaveda contains a list 61) xix. 7, 1 et seq. The number is given as 28 in xix. 7, 1
In the Vedas the asterisms are considered to be the abodes of the deities or the visible forms of pious persons after death, Sāyaṇa on Ṛg-veda I. 50, 2
later as wives of the moon and daughters of दक्ष MBh. Hariv.
Shabda Sagara:
# A star in general.
# An asterism in the moon's path or lunar mansion, of which twenty-eight, distinct in name, figure, and number of stars, are enumerated; the Poura4nic and popular enumeration of those constellations is twenty-seven; Abhijit, the twenty-eighth, being considered as formed of portions of the two contiguous asterisms, and not distinct from them 2.
न क्षीयते क्षरते वा ।