[INDOLOGY] Identifying (early modern) names of flowers

[Martin Gansten]

Thank you, Dominik. If other members have anything to add to this list, 
I'm sure Måns would be happy to hear from you.

Best wishes,
Martin


Den 2023-08-16 kl. 04:21, skrev 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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