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

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Dear Colleagues,
Especially on the Indian perception and *representation* of Indian animals
(mammals):
Alexandra van der Geer, *Animals in Stone: Indian Mammals Sculptured
Through Time*, (HdO, Section II: India, edited by J. Bronkhorst, vol. 21),
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008.
Jan Houben

On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 17:36, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> let me add the following books edited by the Bombay Natural History
> Society:
>
> - K.C. Sahni, The Book of Indian Trees, Oxford etc. 1998, and
> - S.H. Prater, The Book of Indian Animals, Oxford etc. 1948, corr. ed.
> 1980, 12th repr. 2005
>
> Christian Ferstl
> University of Vienna
>
> Am 06.05.2021 18:52, schrieb Mārcis Gasūns via INDOLOGY:
> > 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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*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

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