Dear Bhagashri ji Nice story telling. We have added you in the group anyway. Even I remembered the story first time when i saw the photo. Now I will like to add the child play related to parijataka. When we were kids we use to play the game of grocery shop. Here we use to sale many things in which the seeds of plants, dal, flowers and what not were included . And we use to deal with parijat seeds as monney- Paisa. I tused yo be valued as 10 paisa. If papadi seeeds available it use to be valued as 100 paisa or 1 rupee. Gone is the childhood and the days. Madhuri
--- On Fri, 19/8/11, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: From: Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:77592] VALMIKI : OBSERVER OF NATURE 39 To: "Balkar Arya" <[email protected]> Cc: "Col Bimal Sarkar" <[email protected]>, "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 19 August, 2011, 11:08 AM Respected Bimalji,I had a big Parijatak tree (1st flower) at my mothers home giving lots of flowers. Esp in Shravan many people used to come to gather these flowers to offer to God for what is called 'Lakholi' meaning offering One Lakh flowers. It used to give me great pleasure to shake this tree to drop flowers and collect them in inverted umbrellas for these people. Thanks for sharing this story behind this lovely flower which I did not know. There is also a mythological story about Parijatak which I would like to shareDuring samudra manthan (churning of the ocean), the gods had obtained Parijataka, the tree with divine fragrance. This tree was planted in the garden of Indra, the king of gods. One day, SageNarada went to this garden and collected some flowers that had fallen from the treeand gave them to Rukmini, Krishna's wife. Rukmini was very happy but when Satyabhama, another wife of Krishna, smelled its fragrance, she asked Krishna to bring her the tree. After defeating Indra, Krishna brought the tree on earth. But a quarrel started between Rukmini and Satyabhama, as both of them wanted the tree. Krishna planted the tree in Satyabhama's courtyard in such a way that its flowers fell in Rukmini's house and in this way both his wives were happy. RegardsBhagyashri On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Bimal ji3rd pic is of Erythrina i think On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Col Bimal Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Friend, Attaching the image of the 39th member of the series.Valmiki mentioned Parijat in Ramaya.There are two contenders for this tree as per the botanical literature. 1.Nyctanthes arbortristis .Commonly known as Coral Jasmine.This is Harsinghar in Hindi and Sephalika/Seoli in Bangla.Legand says that in the earlier life this plant was a beautiful girl and was in love with Sun God.As the Sun did not notice this unilateral love the girl died.A plant came up at that place.As Sun neglected her the flowers of this plant fall on the ground before the Sun rises. 2.Erythrina variegata.Commonly known as Indian Coral Tree.In Bangla it is Palita Mandar.It is known as Dadap in Hindi. Regards Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar Mobile: 9434194942k -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
