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Ancient Indian text “Mayamatam by Sage Maya deals with Vastushastra.The text contains names of 75 suitable or unsuitable trees for construction of habitat .It is surprising to note that none of these botanical species has become extinct during last 15 centuries.The slide caption contains relevant chapter and verse number
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Ancient Indian Trees depicted in Mayamatam
Presentation by Dr. A. S. Nene
Prof. of Civil Engineering(Retd) VNIT Nagpur
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Ancient Indian text “Mayamatam by Sage
Maya deals with Vastushastra.
The text contains names of 75 suitable or
unsuitable trees for construction of habitat .
It is surprising to note that none of these
botanical species has become extinct during
last 15 centauries.
The slide caption contains relevant chapter
and verse number
15.64 - Falsa - Grewia asiati
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15.64-black catechu / cutch tree Acacia catechu Wild. Mimosoideae
15,64-Babul tree - Acacia arebika
15.64- Indian butter tree South Indian mahua- Madhuca longifolia Linn. / Bassia longifulia Sapotaceae
15.64-Royal poinciana - Delonix regia
15.64-Golden or yellow champa- Michelia champaca Linn. Magnoliaceae
15.64-Black wood- Dalbergia latifolia
15.64-arjuna myrobalan- Terminalia arjuna - Am. Combretaceae
15.64- Pagoda tree - Tabernaemontana Styphnolobium japonicum
15.64- Rubber tree- Hevea brasiliensis,
15.64- white sandalwood- Santalum album Linn. Santalaceae
15.65- Date palm - Phoenix dactilifera
15.65- dhavan- Grewia tiliaefolia Vahl. Tiliaceae
15.65-Sago Palm- Cryota alrenus
15.65- Teak tree - Tectona grandis
15.65-Cheraunji nut tree Buchanania lanzan
15.65- stone flower- Parmelia perlata (Huds.) Ach. Lichenes
15.65-
15.65- Indian lilac / margosa tree - Azidiracta indica A Juss. Meliaceae
15.65-Indian Kino Malabar Kino - Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. Papilionaceae
15.65- pomelo / shadduck of West Indies Citrus decumana Linn. Rutaceae
15.66- Box myrtle- Myrica esculenta Buch – Ham
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15.66- Money jack tree-Fig tree- Ficus carica
15.66- Indian jackfruit tree - Artocarpus integrifolia Linn. / heterophyllus
Urticaceae
15.66- Saptaparni tree- Alstonia scholaris
15.66- Jamoon tree- Eugenia jambolana.
15.66- Bitter Apple -Colocynath,
15.108- sacred fig / peepal tree- Ficus religiosa Linn. Urticaceae
15.106- cluster fig / country fig- Ficus racemosa Linn. / glomerata Urticaceae
15.108- Ficus arnottiana Miq. Moraceae/Urticaceae
15.108- banyan tree - Ficus bengalensis Linn. Urticaceae
15.108- bael- Aegle marmelos Corr. ex. Roxb. Rutaceae
15.109- bastard teak -Butea monosperma Kuntze frondosa Koem ex. Roxb Leguminosae
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15.109- conessi bark tree Holarrhena antidysenterica (white) Wall.
Apocynaceae
15.109- tooth brush tree / salt bush Salvadora persica Linn. Salvadoraceae
15-109- CordiadichotomaFrost.f.
15-109- Lodh tree-chunga- Symplocos cochinchinensis
15.109- wild cinchona-Anthocephalus indicus A. Rich. / cadamba Miq. Rubiaceae
15.110- Night-flowering Jasmine - Nyctanthes arbortristis
15.110- Geranium tree, Camel`s foot, Butterfly tree- bauhinia-purpurea
15.110- Tamarind tree- Tamarindus indica
15.110- Silk cotton tree-
56-15.110- cassia flower / sponge tree Acacia leucophloea /farnesiana Willd. Fabaceae / Mimosaceae
15.111- Cork Oak Tree- Eleiocarpus calamus
15.111- utrasum-bead tree- Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) K. Schum./ E. ganitrus
Roxb. Elaeocarpaceae
15.111- Indian gooseberry- Emblica officinalis Gaertn./ Phyllanthus emblica Linn.
Euphorbiaceae
15.111- Wood Apple-Limonia acidissima
15.111- Indian gamboge- Garcinia morella Desr. Guttiferae
15.111- Putranjiva roxburghii Wall. / Drypetes
roxburghii Wall. Euphorbiaceae
15.112- Snake wood tree- Acacia xiphophylla
15.112- Indian beech- Pongamia glabra Linn. / pinnata / Galedupa indica Papilionaceae
15.112- three-leaved caper- Crataeva nurvala / religiosa / magna Hook & Forst. Capparidaceae
15.112- Indian plum / jujube / bherefruit tree- Zizyphus sativus Rhamnaceae
15.112- bullet-wood tree- Mimusops elengi Linn. Sapotaceae
15.112
15.112- aloe wood / eagle wood- Aquilaria agallocha Roxb. Thymelacaceae
15.113- camphor tree- Cinnamomum camphora Nees & Eberm. Lauraceae
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