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Citation Information
| INDIAN ELEMENTS IN PERSIAN PHARMACOLOGY 585 44(459). gûlâni, a kind of barley brought from India. JOLLY (p. 196), without giving an Indian name, regards this as Glycine labialis (RoxBURGH, Flora Indica, p. 565) ; Watt does not give this species for India. Cf. No. 572, where it is described under the name hâl. 45(48o). kundur, incense (Boswellia thurif era) . Skr. kunduru, kundura, kundu, kunduruka. Achundow does not mention a Persian form kundurû, as asserted by HÜBSCHMANN (Armen. Gram., p. 172). Pahlavi *kundurük and Armenian kndruk are directly traceable to Skr. kunduruka. 46(483). kâfûr (Arabic and Persian), camphor (Laurus camphora). The same word appears already in Middle Persian. Skr. karpûra. 47(512). lâk, ränglâk, lac (Gummi laccae). Cf. above, p. 476. 48(517). me g, mungo bean (Phaseolus mungo) . Skr. mâsa (Phaseolus radiatus). This Indian word is widely diffused over Asia: Tibetan ma-§a, Mongol ma.a, Turki ma. (" a small kind of bean"), Tarann ma§ ("bean"), Sart ma§ ("lentil "), Osmanli mad`. 49(525). mu§ktirâmu.ir, mu.ktirâm. i, Origanum dictamnus. " The best is that of India." The name is said to come from the Syriac (p. 267). AINSLEE (Materia Indica, Vol. I, p. 112) calls it dittany of Crete, and says that he has never seen it in India. Indeed it does not occur there, hence the Indian variety of Abu Mansur must be O. marjorana, the sweet marjoran, Skr. phanijjhaka, Arabic mardaku§ or mizunju. . 50(550). nargil (Arabic ndrjil), coco-nut (Cocos nucifera). Avicenna: juz hindi ("Indian nut ") . Skr. nârikela, ndrikera, etc. 51(552). nilûfar, P. nilûpar, Nymphœa alba, N. lotus, etc. Skr. nilôtpala (Nymphæa lotus); also kumuda, kamala, etc. Cf. LoEw, Lc., P. 313. 52(557). nil, lila, indigo (Indigofera tinctoria). Skr. nila (above, P. 370). 53(572). hâl, P. hil-i xurde, lesser cardamom (Cardamomum minus or malabaricum, or Elettaria cardamomum) . Skr. eta. 54(583). yabrûh, mandrake (Atropa mandragora) . "Two kinds are distinguished, an Indian, called yabrûh ul-sanam, and a Nabathæan." As the genus Atropa does not occur in India, with the exception of A. belladonna, which, however, is restricted to the territory stretching from Simla to Kashmir, it is obvious that a species of Datura is to be understood by the Indian mandrake of Abu Mansur. This case is interesting, in that it shows again the identical employment of the mandrake and the datura (cf. LAUFER) La Mandragore, T `oung Pao, 1917, pp. I-30). • | ||||
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