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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In 1970 I was privileged to hear in the rooms of the Linnaean Society the Burkill Memorial Lecture delivered by J. R. Marr. His discursive but interesting paper “An examination of some plant-names and identities in India” has now appeared in JRAS, 1972, 40–56. On the last page of that paper the Sanskrit word mālākanda is discussed, and its properties are described in a Sanskrit verse quoted from a “Malayāḷam ‘herbal’”, which apparently was published in Trivandrum in 1950. Marr provides a translation of the verse. I was, on reading it, immediately struck by the odd property attributed to mālākanda of “destroying perfumed garlands”, not at all the sort of property one normally finds in Indian medical sources.
1 I have the 3rd edition, Varanasi, 1967 (Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Work No. 93).
2 Rājanighaṇṭu-sahito dhanvantarīya-nighaṇṭuḥ, ed. Vaidya Nārāyaṇa Śarma and Vināyaka Gaṇeśa Āpṭe, 2nd ed., Poona, 1925 (Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series 33).
3 Chopra, R. N., Nayar, S. L., and Chopra, I. C., Glossary of Indian medicinal plants, New Delhi, 1956, 35Google Scholar.