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[onus]

I was reading Kernighan Ritchie book chapter 4 which deals with character pointers.
I am not able to understand following different type of declarations

char aname[][15] = { "Illegal month", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar" };

char amessage[] = "now is the time"; 

char *name[] = { "Illegal month", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar" };

[vachovsky]

at the first line: pointer to pointer to array, which should contain a C string. ( fixed size )
at the next line: pointer to array , which should contain a C string.
at the last line: pointer to pointer