Traditional constellations such as the [[Big Dipper]] and [[Northern Cross]] which fall inside another astronomical constellation have been renamed '' 'asterisms' '' ❋ Unknown (2009)
The great stupa was more than six leagues from top to bottom, and inside it the Buddha emitted two mandalas: below the mandala of Dharmadhatu Vagishvara, above the great mandala of the splendid asterisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thus, the Big Dipper, unlike most constellations or asterisms, is largely composed of related stars. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dhanishtha and other asterisms were created by Brahma, and Rohini used to serve the purpose of one such; and consequently their number was full. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
Like some planet of dreadful form moving above all the asterisms below, the officer (with plenary powers) mentioned last should move and act above all the officers subordinate to him. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
The inverse asterisms used in the adverts at the end of the text are shown as *. * in this e-text. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
These are the only "twelve stars," or asterisms, in the heavens. ❋ 1837-1913 (1909)
By Night, amid the asterisms I glide, the dappled Moon! ❋ Unknown (1909)
The little asterisms Sagitta, the Arrow, and Vulpecula and Anser, the ❋ William Tyler Olcott (1904)
Not that they were the first to set the blazonry of the stars as monuments of their thought; we read certain allusions to stars and asterisms as far back as the time of Job. ❋ Henry White Warren (1871)
Aśvíní in astronomy is the head of Aries or the first of the twenty-eight lunar mansions or asterisms. ❋ Valmiki (1866)
They are said to be the children of the sun and the nymph Aśviní, who is one of the lunar asterisms personified. ❋ Valmiki (1866)
The belief that the stars were living beings, combining with the fancy of an unscientific time, gave rise to the stellar apotheosis of heroes and legendary names, and was the source of those numerous asterisms, out lined groups of stars, which still bedeck the skies and form the landmarks of celestial topography. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
Secondly, out of these twenty-eight asterisms, there are seventeen only which can really be identified with the Hindu stars ❋ Alexander Wilder (1861)
The Chaldaean astronomers not only seized on and named those natural groups which force themselves upon the eye, but artificially arranged the whole heavens into a certain number of constellations or asterisms. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
As there were anciently only forty-eight celestial figures or constellations, of which twelve were in the Zodiac, it follows that there were, outside of the Zodiac, thirty-six other asterisms, paranatellons of the several thirty-six ❋ Albert Pike (1850)
New stars have appeared and vanished: the ancient asterisms remain; there's not an old star missing. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)
