Ancient Astronomy During Vedic Era

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HH,

Great work! I also had been thinking of doing something like this for a long while! A Dover Publications book titled "Star Names" has most Indian nakshatras and coordinates listed. Although it lists greek and arabic names most profusely. Do you know of any other reference which has an exhaustive listing of Indian asterisms, stars, constellations, nakshatras etc with their coordinates?

I can read the Sanskrit fonts fine. In the first one the word "mR^igashIrSha" is missing the "repha". The spellings that I have seen for this nakshatra are "mR^iga-shirA" or "mR^iga-shIrSha" and the corresponding name of the month is "mArga-shIrSha". I have not yet come across a "mR^iga-shIrShA" spelling, but doesn't really make any difference.

Also noticed that you chose to break-up the sandhis in the sanskrit text. Any particular reason for that?

Ashok.