A Propos Sanskrit Mālākanda
1974 ◽
Vol 106
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pp. 42-43
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In 1970 I was privileged to hear in the rooms of the Linnaean Society the Burkill Memorial Lecture delivered by J. R. Marr. His discursive but interesting paper “An examination of some plant-names and identities in India” has now appeared in JRAS, 1972, 40–56. On the last page of that paper the Sanskrit word mālākanda is discussed, and its properties are described in a Sanskrit verse quoted from a “Malayāḷam ‘herbal’”, which apparently was published in Trivandrum in 1950. Marr provides a translation of the verse. I was, on reading it, immediately struck by the odd property attributed to mālākanda of “destroying perfumed garlands”, not at all the sort of property one normally finds in Indian medical sources.
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1912 ◽
Vol 74
(1929supp)
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pp. 393-393
1954 ◽
Vol 33
(1)
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pp. 17
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1958 ◽
Vol 37
(7)
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pp. 442
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