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@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
 
2.1) Ornitology
Birds-in-Sanskrit-Literature.pdf
 
2.2) Fauna
Bollée_Gone to the dogs
 
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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