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    <> ‘ _VRKSHAYURVED SS S 2 (Excerpt from Sarngadhara-Sarmhita) Dy Bs = a Edited by = — Prof. S.K..RAMAGHANDRA RAO. _ shrinath.udupa@ gmail. com __ KALPATHARURESEARCH ACADEMY POST BOX NO. 1857,.BANGALORE - 560 018 PHONE;624847 A PROJECT ON OSHADHI Kose : Kalpatharu Rex ‘Academy Publicatic Chief Editor: Daivajna K.N. Somayall Ww ov VRKS Haydhvepa (Excerpt rong Catena ae Edited by we S.K. RAMACHANDRA RAO. KALPATHARU RESEARCH ACADEMY POST BOX NO.1857, BANGALORE-560018. pHoriegsyygyre@ gmail.com x Prira: Rs. Fifteen On © oe i 2 » VRKSHAYURVEDA, Being a text bearing on the medicinal herbs and plants and trees useful in gardens, edited by Prof. S.K. Ramachandra Rao and published by Daivajna K.N. Somayaji, Chief Editor & Director, Kalpatharu Research Academy, Post Box No. 1857, Bangalore-560 018, Phone: 624847. m\ Ny Published with financial assistance from the Director General National Archives of India, Govt of India, New Delhi. \ aX. © First Edition: 1993 Kalpatharu Research wag ‘The Publications of Kalpatharu Reegrch ‘Academy are meant to reach all sections of society, and hegeoyaie"s ‘old at highly subsidized prices. An appeal is hereby made tobSoktcellers to.adhere to the prices indicated in each Volume by ~ and not enhance them-on any account. we ‘ADvUBSPD pitas Publishers’ Distributors Ltd. anc Sid MAM POND, GANGES NAGAR, PR. , 713 ‘Branches: New Dethi = | Madras ~' ni Bosrboy — > Calourta x se000e, PHONES: 269901, 209002, 28200, 282904 Printed By -. H.venkataremaigh A, Payonidhi Printers Pvt Ltd, 7 . Phone : 610810. _._ Shrinath.udupa@ gmail.com q ww PREFACE The Kalpatharu Research Academy, Bangalore, has wnat” on @ new project entitled 'Oshadhi Kosha’. It relates» tothe traditional wisdom concerning the medicinal uses\of Plants and trees. A'glossary of medicinal plants, which is ndtohly Mustrated ‘but authentic, has also been planned; the valuable ‘section which deals with the care and uses of plants in tha welRhown compen- dium, Sarigadhara-Paddhati, (sometit Elisa, called Sargad- hara-Sarhhita) has been edited and print red here, with translation in English by Vidyalankara Prof: Ramachandra Rao. ‘The subject of Ayurveda ig well) Satie the area of specialization chosen by the Kalpatharu iu beach Academy; and some books on the subject have alrg@d):been published. Ayurveda has been of immense importandein Indian culture; and the Academy, committed as ior the recovery ard preservation of the significant aspects) ‘of our culture, has planned publications of source-matrias of Ayurveda, relating to medicinal herbs, phar- tale ‘preparations, theoretical considerations and inetd details, jhe present publication deals not only with the plants and ‘trees recognised in Ayurveda for medicinal purposes, but also with the plants and trees which are fit for private gardens and public parks. The work in this sense is an unusual one, while also being highly useful. shrinath.udupa@ gmail.com { It has been brought out after our scholars have carefully edited the text, amended the existing English translation and added a valuable Introduction. We are grateful to Vidyalankara Prof.S.K.Ramachandra ne the well-known authority in Indological subjects and Shri Yellabpa Reddy, Chief Conservator of Fotests,_ Government ofKamataka, for having kindly prepared the matter for publicatio \ . Weallso acknowledge the assistance provigetby Dr. RK Per- thy, Director General, National Archives of{ndia, New Delhi. _- The Payonidhi printers isto be'thanked for having - expedited the printing Of this work. _ WY) 14-April-93. \ Daivajna K.N. Somayajl Soura-Ugadi,| Chief Editor and Director, Bangalore, ty KALPATHARU RESEARCH ACADEMY x \ Spe shrinath.udupa@ gmail.com \ x INTRODUCTION The Indian Research Institute of Calcutta undertook to publish ancient and medieval texts pertaining to what it called"ndian positive Sciences". As its first publication appeared Sanskrit _ treatise on Arbori-horticulture, Upavana-vinoge\in 18 1938. The text was Sarfigadhata’s encyclopaedic work ondthis “subject. The renowned scholar Brajendra Nath seal, in\the course of his Foreword to this book, pointed out that tied religion or theology was not the pre-occupation of they Miu mind" and that the subject of Vrkshayurveda "became Ppeyalent asa distinct,branch of postive knowledge as early}as the Artha-sastra of Kautilya expressly referring to it". aipe"effort of the Calcutta Institute to - bring to the notice of scholats and scientists this important text is undoubtedly laudable JAnd the Insitute also got the text trans- lated into English, Byneminent botanist, Prof. Glrija Prasanna Majumdar (who beaded the department of Botany in Presidency College, Caldutta), who also wrote an elaborate introduction to the subjech, The publication was an eye-opener. It was informative andkBigneering. ‘However, the text as printed in this book was brimming with A jerrors, and many of the readings were not proper. And the translation, although accurate for the most part, was involved. in its diction and was defective in some places. A perusal of the text and translation left me and many of my colleagues rather dissatis- ” fied. A revised edition of the text was obviously indicated... This has been done in the present publication. The translation of Prof. Gitija Prasanna Majumdar, was a labour of love and was ac- quainted with the sincerity, expert knowledge and unbounded zal fhe eared es mee Econ threrfore, nor indicated: his good work was not so easily tq be dismissed. It was decided that the translation of Prof. Majumdar was to be retained but edited wherever neccessary. The introduc- tion of the Calcutta edition describes Sarfgadhara, the author of the Original . text, as a courtier of King Hammira a Sakarhbharidesa (modem Bundelkhand) who flourished inh thirteenth century A.D (1269-1901). But research hag shonin the compiler of this Paddhati or Sarhhita known afte’Sargadhara was the son of Damodara, who was in turn the soighRaghava, who was himself one of the sons of King Hammira\(ct. P. Peter. son, ed. in Bombay Sanskrit Series; and MYKrishnamichariar, History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, Mgitas™1837, p. 386). The Paddhati that he compiled (consist@~of 4689 verses) has been ascribed to 1363 A.D. OU ee The work is little more pene compilation of relevant material from different clagsical sources. But it is encyclopaedic in its nature, and almoghex exhaustive in its treatment. The matter pertaining to Vrkshayyryeda has been collected from numerous | text-books of Vrkshayurveda, as the text itself includes a refer- ences:'riarat ivfkshayurveda sastrebhyah’. This makes it clear that | there were’ ‘feany works in Sanskrit bearing on this subject. which were available even in the fourteenth century. Unfortunately, barritfhs a'Very small number of shoit texts this corpus has‘been lost\to’ us. \\ AY tam grateful to the late Prof. Girija Prasanna Majumdar, whose translation has been reproduced here almost in its original shape, and to the Late Sjt. Satish Chandra Seal, the founder-Secretary Of the Indian Research Institute, Calcutta, who published the translation for the first time. My thanks are due to my friend, Shri AN. Yellappa Reddy, Special Secretary to the Government of. - Kamataka (department of Ecology. YE AENVERIpRING win cet. com only procured a copy of the Calcutta edition for me but undertook to provide modem scientific equivalents for the names of plants given at the end of the Calcutta publication mame incorrect or outdated). . As In the other publications of the Academy: Shri Daivaina eee A important book in is series of books which are'meant to highlight the achelvements of the ancient Indian genius. The printers. have ~ done a good job in producing this book. \ - . ~<~ shrinath.udupa@ gmail.com oa wa gargaa: || A ART OF ENJOYMENT BY GARDENING) Terma ftv cde ay * ORT: er Teg er PTT a Getafe gil He is Indeed a monarch if, ‘if, his house has extensive gardens, ‘spacious, gardene,cofidining large pools of water with lovely lotus blossoms ver Which humming bees fly:that may be regarded as theyconisummation of all happiness on the part of men, and that’g ‘ove ‘intense pleasure to the mind of sportive and pleasurésBeking ladies puffed up with the pride of beauty. (1) Pra Preretraarfy pra: RI If pleasure-seeking sovereigns have no gardens wherein to seek pleasufe, the delicate and fine bodily form, bevy of fair and youthful fadies, compeers excelling in pleasing arts and sonorous lutes and profusion of wealth, all these are useless. (2) arent araaereitar sar atta shrinath. udupa@ gmail.com 1 x Aes wa afte: verge | at freer Pafaet Parco: BAT: ATT ATT 13 1am expounding in detail that subject after a thorough study a the treatises complied by the sages of old. May the noble-minded and upright readers find delight in going throught it, and judging it as whole (for what it is worth) “a aa Tenteat | THE GLORY OF mee agfirda fir ord: gadtatefaheat | v ae: a Geta Peer ort A) Better to have a tree (planted) by the ‘wayside where many rest under Its shade, than to haye\many sons born who are devoid of wealth and virtue. aq a ® 3 ; WX mage art erat Bel ~ WaSTEH: Fat Saar aH: UI We read in the Saétras that excavation of a pond is equivalent (in virtueg)id\sinking of ten wells, a take is equivalent to ten Ponds,-and, a son is equivalent to ten’such lakes; and a tree is as goad/as ten sons. ©) . ohh seaterorern! BTS SRC TTT TATA Ell He, who for pleasure makes him a good garden full of fruit and fiower trees, is destined to go to the abode of Siva and reside there for as many as three aeons. 6) Urea oftara garts SATRT | _ satdarrrteret gta erect at lel “ spprinath.udupa@ gmail.com \ x One should plant trees with full knowledge of these particulars, in as much as from trees proceed virtues, material prosperity, fulfilment of desires and salvation - a these four sovereign things. m aaa ae ahr age sat) araetawearter tqed etaet INCI c Ps A'man is sure to reside in Vaikuntha (the abodetof Vishnu) for as many thousand years as there are Basil plants Planted in his house. @® eg ear a ees Rt RTA | anv > areHaher ear eresht: Siar Teas Lakshmi (the Goddess of Wedittiy fives for generations in the house of one who plant the Bilva‘tree peculiarly favourite with (9) ae arr apa a eae oat BElleoll He who plants / Agta trees after a proper method no matter where, ae - Othe abode of Vishnu... °

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