marAThI bELA (jasmine)

[Madhav Deshpande]

There is indeed the Marathi word bel (Skt. bela-) referring to the
specific tree whose leaves are offered to Shiva, i.e. belapatra, and whose
fruit are supposed to have medicinal properties.  But this obviously is
different from anything like jasmine.
                                                Madhav Deshpande

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Swaminathan Madhuresan wrote:

> -Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at UMICH.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > I have not known this word in Marathi in this sense.  Marathi words
> for
> > different varieties of jasmine are 'mogaraa', 'jaai', 'jui', and
> > 'raat-raa.nii', and I have never heard bELA.
> >                                                 Madhav Deshpande
>
> Got this from Indology archives. S. Krishna (mahadevasiva at hotmail.com)
> wrote so on 1 May 1998 under the title, Re: Beluur and Belgaum.
>
> Swaminathan Madhuresan
>
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