Re: [INDOLOGY] āruka?

[Stella Sandahl]

Yes, indeed it is a plum, Prunus domestica. Indian Medicinal Plants  (Ed. by  the Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal , Orient Longman 1995)  vol 4, p. 356 says it grows in Himachal Pradesh and the Nilgiris.
"Parts used: fruits
Properties and uses: The fruits are sweet, laxative, refrigerant, appetising, stomachic (sic!) digestive and tonic. They are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, dipsia (whatever that is), nausea, flatulence, colic, dyspepsia and debility."
Hopefully the poor cakora is just enjoying the taste... like the rest of us.
Best to all
Stella Sandahl
 
 


 
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On 2013-04-27, at 3:47 PM, Jan E.M. Houben wrote:

> G.-J. Meulenbeld 1999 HIML IA p 100 and IB p 165 note 217:
> [aaruka:] identified as the common plum, the fruit of Prunus domestica Linn. ... or as the peach, the fruit of P. persica Batsch ... An auttarapathika fruit acc. to Cakrapanidatta, well known in Karttikeyapura. 
> 
> 
> On 26 April 2013 22:24, Robert Hueckstedt <rah2k at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Fellow listers:
> I wish to learn more about the āruka plant. It is supposedly used medicinally, and the St. Pete's has it as growing in the Himalayas, but I have come across it in Bāṇa's description of the Punjabi (now Haryana) region called Śrīkaṇṭha. In that description it (or most likely its seed, nut, fruit?) is being pecked at by a chukar partridge (cakora).  The phrase is: cakoracañcujarjaritāruka. Böhtlingk and Roth, following the Śabdakalpadruma, assign it the synonyms vīrāruka and vīrasena. The Hindi Śabdasāgar says it has a cooling effect. I simply would like to know what it is more precisely that this bird is pecking at.
> 
> Gratefully,
> Bob Hueckstedt
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