Author: A. P. Benthall
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Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Trees of Calcutta and Its Neighbourhood
Author: A. P. Benthall
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Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Calcutta and Its Neighborhood
Author: James Long
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Catalogue of Plants Indigenous in the Neighbourhood of Calcutta
Author: Robert Anderson
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Tress of Calcutta and Its Neighbourhood
Author: A. P. Benthall
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands
Author: Craig R. Elevitch
Publisher: PAR
ISBN: 0970254458
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
"This book is for the person who lives in the tropics or subtropics and is interested in native plants, who wants to know about plants that are useful, who loves to watch plants grow, and who is willing to work with them. Such a person might ask questions like, Where will they grow? How do I grow them? Are they good to eat? How are they used? What are their names? These questions and more are answered here."--Préface
Publisher: PAR
ISBN: 0970254458
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
"This book is for the person who lives in the tropics or subtropics and is interested in native plants, who wants to know about plants that are useful, who loves to watch plants grow, and who is willing to work with them. Such a person might ask questions like, Where will they grow? How do I grow them? Are they good to eat? How are they used? What are their names? These questions and more are answered here."--Préface
Calcutta and Its Neighbourhood
Author: James Long
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Publisher:
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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The Trees Called Śigru (Moringa Sp.), Along with a Study of the Drugs Used in Errhines
Author: Jan Meulenbeld
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9077922520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Research on the Ayurvedic materia medica, in particular its drugs of plant origin, is a venture bristling with pitfalls despite the apparent confidence displayed in the lists of botanical identifications of medicinal plants in numerous publications on the subject. This self-assurance is unwarranted in quite a few cases, as this study will demonstrate.The majority of these lists of botanical equivalents of Sanskrit plant names are not based on own research; instead, they usually reflect a consensus reached somehow among Indian ayurvedic scholars. The course of events that resulted in this agreement remains uninvestigated. Setting aside the role of leading authorities and trend-setting publications, one of the factors involved may be the significance of a seemingly trustworthy and scientifically-looking pharmacopoeia for the Indian ayurvedici in their competition with western medicine. In this respect the developments referred to are understandable.From a strictly scientific point of view caution is required. When trying to take stock of the situation, one's attention is arrested by the prevalence of North-Indian influences and opinions in the secondary literature on the Indian materia medica. The concurrence mentioned is a North-Indian product that may be looked upon as an artefact since regional differences in the identifications tend to be disregarded. Though exceptions do occur, most often books by authors hailing from northern India fail to pay attention to the plants employed under the same Sanskrit names in southern India and areas such as, for instance, Gujarat and Orissa.
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9077922520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Research on the Ayurvedic materia medica, in particular its drugs of plant origin, is a venture bristling with pitfalls despite the apparent confidence displayed in the lists of botanical identifications of medicinal plants in numerous publications on the subject. This self-assurance is unwarranted in quite a few cases, as this study will demonstrate.The majority of these lists of botanical equivalents of Sanskrit plant names are not based on own research; instead, they usually reflect a consensus reached somehow among Indian ayurvedic scholars. The course of events that resulted in this agreement remains uninvestigated. Setting aside the role of leading authorities and trend-setting publications, one of the factors involved may be the significance of a seemingly trustworthy and scientifically-looking pharmacopoeia for the Indian ayurvedici in their competition with western medicine. In this respect the developments referred to are understandable.From a strictly scientific point of view caution is required. When trying to take stock of the situation, one's attention is arrested by the prevalence of North-Indian influences and opinions in the secondary literature on the Indian materia medica. The concurrence mentioned is a North-Indian product that may be looked upon as an artefact since regional differences in the identifications tend to be disregarded. Though exceptions do occur, most often books by authors hailing from northern India fail to pay attention to the plants employed under the same Sanskrit names in southern India and areas such as, for instance, Gujarat and Orissa.
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
Author: Vālmīki
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120831636
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120831636
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Mutating Goddesses
Author: Saswati Sengupta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190993251
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities—Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. The critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. But there are religious practices and beliefs under the broad rubric of Hinduism that are neither governed by the male Brahman nor articulated in Sanskrit. It is this vibrant laukika archive—considered low from the hegemonic perspective—that Mutating Goddesses explores to realize the politic trafficking between this realm and the sastrik. The book excavates the multiple and layered heritage of the region which includes tribal culture, Buddhism, Tantricism, and so on, as is available in rituals, proverbs, verses, circulating myths, poetic genres and kathas, caste manuals, census records etc to illustrate how tradition is a matter of strategic selection.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190993251
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities—Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. The critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. But there are religious practices and beliefs under the broad rubric of Hinduism that are neither governed by the male Brahman nor articulated in Sanskrit. It is this vibrant laukika archive—considered low from the hegemonic perspective—that Mutating Goddesses explores to realize the politic trafficking between this realm and the sastrik. The book excavates the multiple and layered heritage of the region which includes tribal culture, Buddhism, Tantricism, and so on, as is available in rituals, proverbs, verses, circulating myths, poetic genres and kathas, caste manuals, census records etc to illustrate how tradition is a matter of strategic selection.
Contribution to the Flora of Calcutta and Its Neighbourhood
Author: N. M. Dutta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785507253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780785507253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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