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they are called Jivapota in Hindi, Kurupalo in Tamils Rabra- 

 juYi in Telugu, Pongalam in Maliyali, and Jivanputra ia 

 Marathi. 



JATROPHA GLANDULIFERA, ii!^^5. 



Hab. — Deccan Peninsnla, Bengal, Northern CircarS; and 

 sparingly elsewhere. The juice, root, and oiL 



Femacular. —Vndevhihiy Ean-erandi, Tadki-erandi [Mar.), 

 Lal-bhorenda {Hind,, Beng.), U'dalai (IV<r;;?.), Nela-amudamii 

 [Tel.]. 



History, Uses, &C.— This plant appears to have been 

 introduced into India, but it is not known from whence. 

 Graham, in his Catalogue of Bombay Plants, published in 1839, 

 says that in his time it was only to be found at Punderpore 

 in the Deccan (a place much frequented by pilgrims, who 



isit the temple of Yithoba). There is a fabulous 

 legend that it suddenly made its appearance at this i^lace. 

 The following is the story, for which we are indebted to 

 Dr. Shantaram V. Kuntak of Punderpore : — '* A certain 



come 



cultivator 



A 



during the i-sliddlii fair ; whilst thus engaged he was 

 accosted by numbers of pilgrims who were passing 

 his fieldj on their way out of the town, to meet the 

 palanquins of Dnyanoba, Namdeo and Tukaram, which are 

 brought to Punderpore at this season from Paithan, Alandi, and 

 Behu. All the pilgrims asked him what he was sowing, until 

 the man got tired of answering their questions ; in a short tune 

 another pilgrim came up and asked the same question,— the 

 man, vexed beyond endurance, answered that he was sowing =ffZ' 

 (membrum virHe). It is said that this last pilgrim was the 



m 



of his devotees, and that, annoyed at th°e cultivator's answer, he 



him, savlnor 



So when 



harvest time camo, instead of the usual crop, the whole field was 

 covered with thia ahorf. fl,;.i,_.. .1 V , „ ^ ... _-.i,:. 



within 



