Dear Viplav ji ... I am absolutely convinced and going with your thoughts that you elaborated in the first instance itself. I have already corrected my notes by disassociating the misnomer.
I posted the links only on request from Usha di, and not for justifying the use of name. Thank you very much for the elaboration related to birth of the misnomer; and the subsequent efforts of trashing it. Thanks once again. Regards. Dinesh On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:49 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Dinesh ji, > > It might be mentioned in several supposedly-reliable sources that are > obviously oblivious to the ground reality. આસોપાલવ is a composite word > meaning 'leaves like that of Ashok'. That would render it appropriate for > the False Ashok [*Polyalthia longifolia*] and redundant for the true one > [*Saraca > asoca*]*.* > > We do have a precedent to this discussion. In May 1929, Blatter & Millard > published the first part of their series titled "Conspicuous Flowering > Trees of India" [JBNHS, vol. 33, issue 3]. From the second part onward, the > series would continue under the revised title "Some Beautiful Indian > Trees". > > The eleventh part commenced with *Saraca indica*, and the authors > assigned "Ashopalava" as the popular Gujarati name of this tree. Have > attached a scan of this page (fr. JBNHS, vol. 36, issue 2, p. 353, April > 1933). > > Well, this error did not go unnoticed and it was fully dilated upon by the > insightful naturalist Harinarayan G. Acharya (1897-1984) in the journal's > last issue of the year. Have also attached a scan of his article "The > Ashoka Tree" (fr. JBNHS, vol. 36, issue 4, pp. 1021-1022, Dec. 1933). > > Best wishes, Viplav > > El 17 de diciembre de 2014, 21:00, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > escribió: > >> >> ... it is also mentioned in Gujarati Lexicon >> <http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/dictionary/GE/%E0%AA%86%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%8B%E0%AA%AA%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B2%E0%AA%B5*/> >> - online dictionary. >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Usha di for your feedback. >>> >>> Actually all the names listed in my above post are links to pages in my >>> personal project site. Each such name page gives the reference where the >>> name is mentioned. >>> >>> The name asopalava is mentioned in Hindi Wikipedia >>> <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7> >>> . >>> ... अशोक को बंगला में अस्पाल, मराठी में अशोक, *गुजराती में आसोपालव* तथा >>> ... >>> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
