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'naksatra' in Mt 2:9 in the oldest Malayalam printed bible
I'm a little puzzled by this word "Naksatra". The same word also occurs in the 1811 Ramban Bible in Mt 2:9. The Ramban bible is a translation in Malayalam and this 1811 text is the oldest printed text in this language.

What does this word exactly mean? Google alternatively translates either as ‘star’ or ‘middle’. This is very interesting for it seems the very star they considered was Spica/ Citrah.

I tried to make a transcription in modern Malayalam script of this line. However, please note I do NOT understand this language at alll and that probably some errors still remain:

എന്നാൽ രാജാവി ൽനി ന്നഇവ (missing one or two charcters) വ ർവികെട്ടപ്പൊൾ അവർ പോയി ഇതല്ലൊകി ഥാക്കിൽഅവർ കണ്ടൂ വെന്നആ നക്ഷത്രം വൈ ൽതാൻ ആക നുംഎന്ന അവിടനിന്നമലി ന്നവന്നുനി ന്നഎന്നതി നൊളൊഠ അവങ്ങടെമ്മു ന്നൽ അള വൊക നുവായി  (original in Grantha script to be found at https://archive.org/details/1811RambanBibleMalayalam/page/n10/mode/1up)

9 ennāl rājāvi lni nna'iva va rvikeṭṭappeāḷ avar pēāyi italleāki thākkilavar kaṇṭū venna'ā nakṣatraṁ vai ltān āka nuṁenna aviṭaninnamali nnavannuni nna'ennati neāḷeāṭha avaṅṅaṭem'mu nnal aḷa veāka nuvāyi

The very word ‘naksatram’ seems to be curiously in line with what Theodor bar Konai wrote 9 centuries earlier about this verse ‘you will see a star in the middle of heavens’. Do you mind translating this line properly for me? And more specially, the Malayalam text (please refer to the original given in the url), does it contain the words ‘middle’ ‘star’ or ‘measure’ ? Does it contain the word ‘see’ or rather the word ‘observe’? I would like to emphasize (al LOT) it was probably for this line (and maybe some others) ALL bibles in Syriac were destroyed by the Portuguese after 1599 and that this line (and 1811 Bible) is one of the extremely rare surviving traces of the pre-Diampur Christian literature in Kerala.

Regards,

willibrord oomen oomenwong@free.fr