[INDOLOGY] Identifying (early modern) names of flowers

[Dominik Wujastyk]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 14:02, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> On behalf of Måns Broo, who is a member of the list but for some reason
> unable to post, I wonder if anyone can help in identifying the following
> species of flowers mentioned in a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava ritual text in Sanskrit
> (c. 16th century). The names in brackets are given by a commentator as *iti
> prasiddham*, but a search of Hindi and Bengali dictionaries has yielded
> no results so far:
>
> kāṇva (kaṇahulī)
> purandhrī (puṅgavī)
> śikhin (curiyā)
>

may be Citraka (GVDB
<https://archive.org/details/Singh-Chunekar-1972/page/156/mode/2up>)



> rotakī
> timirā (triṃtara)
>

may be timira  (GDVB
<https://archive.org/details/Singh-Chunekar-1972/page/296/mode/2up> ff.)

> villātaka
>

possibly bhallātaka (GDVB
<https://archive.org/details/Singh-Chunekar-1972/page/282/mode/2up>)

>
> Best wishes,
> Martin Gansten
>
>
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