382  AWHOARDIACE A. 
Vernacular—Amb, Am ( Hind. ),Amba (Mar.), Manga- maram 
(Tam.), Ambaj (Arab.), Naghzak (Pers.), Ambo (Guz.), 
Ma (Mal.). 
History, Uses, &c.—The nes. in Sanskrit fer 
Chita and Sahakara, is said to be a transformation of Praj4pati 
(lord of creatures), an epithet in the Veda originally applied to 
Savitri, Soma, Tvashtri, Hiranga-garbha, Indra, and Agni, but 
afterwards the name of a separate god presiding over procreation. 
_ (Manu xii, 121.) In more recent hymns and Brdéhmanas_ 
Prajapati is identified with the universe. 
The tree provides one of the pancha-pallava or aggregate of . 
- five sprigs used in Hindu ceremonial, and its flowers are used 
in Shiva worship on the Shivaratri. It is also a favourite of the 
Indian poets. The flower is iivoked in the sixth act of Sakuntala 
as one of the five arrows of Kémadeva. Im the travels of the 
Buddhist pilgrims, Fah-hian and Sung-yun (translated by Beal) . 
-a Mango grove (Amravana) is mentioned which was presented 
by Amradirika to Buddha in order that he might use it as a 
| place of repose. This Amradarika, a kind of Buddhic Mag- 
dalen, was the daughterof the mango tree. Inthe Indian story 
of Strya Bai (see Cow, Myth. of the Arian Nations) the daughter 
of the sun is represented as-persecuted by a sorceress, to escape 
from whom, she became a golden Lotus. The king fell in love 
with the flower, which was then burnt by the sorceress. From 
its ashes grew a mango tree, and the king fell in love first 
with its flower, and then with its fruit; when ripe the fruit 
fell to the ground, and from it emerged the daughter of the sun 
(Sarya Bai), and was recognized by the prince as his lost wife. 
Long articles upon the virtues of the mango in its ripe and 
unripe state (kéri) ees be found in Hindu and Mahometan 
_works on Materia Medica 
The Turkoman poet, Amfr iii who lived in Delhi in the - 
time of Muhammad Tughlak Shah, says of it :—~ 
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