1893.] 
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GK A. Grierson — Analysis of the PadumUwati. 
‘ The kadamba, ketalel, ndgesara, molnsari (perhaps), must have been 
introduced, from the eastward by way of the Lower Provinces. 
‘The jahl (see however note above), Tcujd, bahauri, rasa-bell, seoti , 
and sbnijarada are natives of N.-W. Himalaya, and, except the jahl, 
which also comes from Afghanistan and Persia and can stand a deal of 
heat, can hardly have been known to him, unless he was in the habit 
of going some way into the hills, for I do not feel sure that they could 
have been grown in the plains. At any rate, if he could grow them 
below, they came originally from the hills of Kumaon or Kashmir.’ 
In another communication regarding the trees, Dr Prain writes : 
‘ The names of the oranges and lemons are interesting and fall in 
exactly with those known to Bonavia, in the very country in which 
the poet wrote. 
‘ You will note again the very marked Panjabi and Himalayan ring 
about the names, e.g., in the red currant, with a regular Hill name. 
In this case, I think that the amrita bell 1 must be the black currant. 
I cannot think why the author gives (in the same passage) the two 
names, suparl and gud, of the betel-nut. They mean exactly the 
same now-a-days. The name for sorrel 2 I do not find in any of our 
books, I give, however, the Latin name of sorrel. The Indian goose- 
berry 3 has not any name quoted so far as my reading goes. I give 
its Latin name also. It is an excejition to the rest of his fruits, for it 
comes from South India and Ceylon, (the only thing that is restricted 
to these parts in his whole list.) 
‘ Gulala is the common basil of old-fashioned English gardens. 
The name is usually given, not to the green-leaved plant wo know, 
but, to a purple-leaved form that one gets in India. By the way, the 
plant is generally spoken of as guldl tulsl, so that the word is used as an 
adjective. Our basils are, of course, the Indian tulsls, but, owing to 
our and their interest centering on different ones, they give their name, 
unqualified, to a different one from the one that is unqualified by us. 
1 Bell is the Panjabi name for the black currant. 
2 Saykhadardu, which I had identified with the Sanskrit S'uykhadrava, which the 
dictionaries translate by ‘ sorrel.’ Gt. A. G. 
* Ilariphdryauri, translated in all dictionaries by ‘ Indian Gooseberry.’ G. A. G. 
Thus 
English name. Scientific name. 
The Basil. Ocimum basilicum. 
Sacred Basil. Ocimum sanctum. 
Sweet Basil. Ocimum gratissimum. 
Indian name. 
Gulal tulsl. 
TulsI. 
Ram tulsl. 
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