星宿名。譯曰軫宿。見翻梵語九。梵語Pūrvā Āsādhāh。
aṣāḍhā, is a doublenakṣatra(two lunar mansions) associated with 箕, stars in Sagittarius; this form is said to bepūrvāṣāḍhāand is intp. as 軫, i.e. stars in Corvus, but these stars are in the Indian constellation Hastā, the Hand, which may be the more correct transliteration; cf. 阿沙陀.