[INDOLOGY] Flora and Fauna of India (Biodiversity of India)

[Dániel Balogh]

 Hello,
as far as flora is concerned, the Pandanus database
http://iu.ff.cuni.cz/pandanus/database/ is still around. For finding the
current standard taxonomic names corresponding to the often dated ones in
Sanskrit dictionaries, The Plant List http://www.theplantlist.org/ is a
useful resource. I hope others will add more.
Best wishes,
Daniel

On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 18:52, Mārcis Gasūns via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>  There is an excellent book in English on Ornitology and an impressive,
> but not so huge list of Flora in India in German. About Fauna in India
> there is only a book I'm aware about dogs. Advice wanted.
>   You better do not trust most of the dictionaries, because they say, that
> पुष्कर «blue lotus», क्रौञ्च «the curlew or snipe» и एणी «female antelope»
> - and that is not really so. For that reason I would love to hear some
> stories around some mistakes in the dictionaries regarding the taxonomy and
> some stories how to get around them with trustable sources:
>
> 1) Flora
> Renate Syed: Die Flora Altindiens in Literatur und Kunst, Dissertation,
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1990
> https://yadi.sk/i/I1VrWAOO2vPXdg
>
> 2.1) Ornitology
> Birds-in-Sanskrit-Literature.pdf
> https://yadi.sk/i/n0_UxdyO3PDTKk
>
> 2.2) Fauna
> Bollée_Gone to the dogs
> https://yadi.sk/i/rSWR_NnclCTXFQ
>
> I've have found https://www.biodiversityofindia.org/, but it does not
> contain far too many of the 1750 Latin plant names I was able to extract
> from Monier-Williams (https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/simple/).
> What other good reference works online or scanned books would you
> recommend, please. Some major (not only Indian related DB would be of
> interest as well).
>
> Regards,
> Dr. Mārcis Gasūns
>
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