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Sacred plants of India
- Title
- Sacred plants of India / Nanditha Krishna & M. Amirthalingam.
- Author
- Krishna, Nanditha, 1951-
- Publication
- Gurgaon : Penguin Books India, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Amirthalingam, M.
- Description
- xiv, 295 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India they feature in our myths, epics, rituals, worship, and daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha editated; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered; and the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available as an e-book.
- ISBN
- 9780143066262 (pbk.)
- 0143066269 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2014356717
- OCLC
- ocn885369033
- 885369033
- SCSB-5809163
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries