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

[Anna Aurelia Esposito]

Dear Mārcis,
there is also Meulenbeld's "Sanskrit Names of Plants and their  
Botanical Equivalents":

https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/SNPScan/2020/web/index.php

Best wishes,
Anna


Zitat von Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:

> 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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