मञ्जुश्रीय-मूलकल्प-नक्षत्राणि

The unfortunately lacunose part of the ma~njushrIya mUlakalpa provides a division of the sky into 56 constellations that seems to have been one followed by the saugata-s. I am yet to see it in a H source. ShaT-pa~nchAshad rAshayaH tadyathA -

  1. meSha 2. vR^iShabha 3. mithuna 4. karkaTaka 5. siMha 6. kanya 7. tula 8. vR^ishchika 9. dhanu 10. makara 11. kumbha 12. mIna;
  2. vAnara 14. upakumbha 15. bhR^i~njAra 16. khaDga 17.ku~njara 18. mahiSha 19. deva 20. manuShya 21. shakuna 22. gandharva 23. lokasatvajita
    24.ugrateja 25. jyotsna 26. ChAya 27. pR^ithivI 28. tama 29. raja 30. uparaja 31. duHkha 32. sukha 33. mokSha 34. bodhi 35. pratyeka 36. shrAvaka 37. naraka 38. vidyAdhara 39. mahoja 40. mahojaska 41. tiryakpreta 42. asurapishita 43. pishAcha 44. yakSha 45. rAkShasa
  3. sarvabhUmita 47. bhUtika 48. nimnaga 49. Urdhvaga 50. tiryaga 51. vikasita 52. dhyAnaga 53. yogapratiShTha 54. uttama 55. madhyama 56. adhamash cheti |

If only we could put these on the sky.