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

[jan.kucera at matfyz.cz]

Thanks Daniel,

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I was going to mention Pandanus as well - if anyone has feedback or requests for that database, feel free to reach out to me offline!

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Best regards,

Jan Kučera

Charles University

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From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> On Behalf Of Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY
Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 7:36 PM
To: Mārcis Gasūns <gasyoun at ya.ru>
Cc: indology <indology at list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Flora and Fauna of India (Biodiversity of India)

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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

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

Greetings,

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 �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:

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1) Flora

Renate Syed: Die Flora Altindiens in Literatur und Kunst, Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1990

https://yadi.sk/i/I1VrWAOO2vPXdg

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2.1) Ornitology

Birds-in-Sanskrit-Literature.pdf

https://yadi.sk/i/n0_UxdyO3PDTKk

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2.2) Fauna

Bollée_Gone to the dogs

https://yadi.sk/i/rSWR_NnclCTXFQ

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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).

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Regards,

Dr. Mārcis Gasūns


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