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Nanditha Krishna & M Amirthalingam SACRED PLANTS OF INDIA Contents Foreword Author’s Note PART I Introduction In the Beginning … Tree Worship in the Vedas Tree Worship in the Epics, Puranas, Jainism, and Buddhism The Woman and the Tree Special Trees Sacred Groves Tree Worship outside India Conclusion PART II Alexandrian Laurel Ashoka Bamboo Banyan Baobab Bengal Quince Bermuda Grass Betel Vine Bile Killer Bombay Atalantia Bottle Flower Tree Butterfly Pea Cannonball Castor Oil Plant Champaka Clearing Nut Tree Cluster Fig Coconut Common Bur-Flower Cotton-Wool Grass Crape Jasmine Cus-cus Custard Apple Cutch Tree Deodar Downy Jasmine Flame of the Forest Gingelly Grapevine Green Gram Hiptage Indian Beech Indian Butter Tree Indian Cadapa Indian Cherry Indian Gooseberry Indian Jujube Indian Laburnum Indian Laurel Fig Indian Lavender Indian Lotus Indian Mesquite Indian Medaller Indian Persimmon Indian Siris Indian Blue Water Lily Ink-Nut/Chebulic Myrobalan Jackfruit Javanese Wool Plant Krishna’s Butter Cup Lemon Lucky Bean Mango Mangrove (Blinding Tree) Marigold Mountain Ebony Needle Flower Jasmine Neem Night Jasmine Palmyra Palm Pipal Plantain Pomegranate Prickly Chaff Flower Rice Sacred Basil Sal Sandalwood Sand Paper Screw Pine Shoe-Flower Soma Steaved Tree Sugarcane Swallow Wort Sweet-Scented Oleander Tamarind Trumpet Flower Turmeric Tuscan Jasmine White Marudh Wood Apple Wooden Beggar-Bead Footnotes Tree Worship in the Epics, Puranas, Jainism, and Buddhism Conclusion Banyan Bottle Flower Tree Hiptage Mango Pomegranate Sacred Basil Plant Names in Indian Languages References Select Bibliography PENGUIN BOOKS SACRED PLANTS OF INDIA Nanditha Krishna is a historian, environmentalist, and writer based in Chennai A PhD in ancient Indian culture, she is the director of the C.P Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and C.P.R Environmental Education Centre She has pioneered the documentation of the ecological traditions of India, restored over fifty sacred groves, and established schools, the C.P.R Indological Research Centre, and Shakunthala Jagannathan Museum of Folk Art Her published works include Sacred Animals of India, Book of Demons, Book of Vishnu, Madras Then Chennai Now, Balaji-Venkateshwara, Ganesha, Painted Manuscripts of the Sarasvati Mahal Library, Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu, and Art and Iconography of Vishnu Narayana, besides numerous research papers and newspaper articles She is a professor and research guide for the PhD programme of the University of Madras and has received several prestigious national and international awards M Amirthalingam is a botanist and environmental education officer at C.P.R Environmental Education Centre, Chennai He has researched and published the books Sacred Groves of Tamil Nadu, Sacred Trees of Tamil Nadu, Temple Tanks of Chennai, and Flora and Fauna of Valmiki’s Ramayana, besides research papers and articles in various journals, magazines, and seminar proceedings He is currently working on the All India Coordinated Research Project on Sacred Grove Ecosystem Service Assessment in the Inland Plains of Tamil Nadu sponsored by the ministry of environment and forests, Government of India In memory of Shakunthala and A.R Jagannathan, a source of inspiration, encouragement, and love References Abbott, J 2003 Keys of Power: A Study of Indian Religion and Belief Whitefish, USA: Kessinger Publishing LLC Aerts, R 2007 ‘Church Forests in Ethiopia’ Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5 (2): 66 Agharkar, S.P 1991 Medicinal Plants of Bombay Presidency Jodhpur: Scientific Publishers Agrawala, V.S 1970 Ancient Indian Folk Cults Varanasi: Prithivi Prakashan Aiyer, A.K Yegna Narayan 1956 The Antiquity of Some Field and Forest Flora of India Bangalore: Bangalore Printing and Publishing Co Akhtar, Jamnadas, ed 1972 Matsya Purana Part 1 Delhi: Oriental Publishers Ali, Ghulam M.; S Yasumoto; and M Katsuta 2007 ‘Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) 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Flame of the Forest Gingelly Grapevine Green Gram Hiptage Indian Beech Indian Butter Tree Indian Cadapa Indian Cherry Indian Gooseberry Indian Jujube Indian Laburnum Indian Laurel Fig Indian Lavender... The cutch tree was created from the middle of the body of Brahma The tamarind was created from the palm of Parvati The five-leaved chaste plant emerged from the forehead of Ganesha The flame of the forest came out of the right side of Yama... Buddhism and Jainism, being offshoots of the Vedic religion, continued many of the earlier traditions One of these was the sanctity of the tree, particularly the pipal Each form of the Buddha and each of the Jaina Tirthankaras was