Flora In The Bhagavata Purana

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Flora In The Bhagavata Purana It was the yaer-1983, being the Principal of Bahugram College, I had an opportunity to preside over an auspicious religious meeting in the Mango-grove (fixed at the venue of daily prayer) of Vivekananda Vidyapitha, Bahugram, arranged by the college and the school as well. The meeting was graced by the world famous saint H.H. Swami Chidananda Saraswati Maharaj, the President of Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, India as the august Chief guest. While delivering his exalted and examplary germane noble mellifluous prelection on the relationship of man with nature, Swamiji was citing the sacred verses from the esteemed Bhagavata-Mahapuranam (Bhd.P) related to the sacred plants of India as well as the trees of western lands and was admonishing the mass that how nature’s resources are being depleted much rather than they could be replenished.

I was moved and motivated by the holy speech of Swamiji and from that day, I made up my mind to have a work on the sacredness and yeoman’s service of the plants as related in Bhd. P. This inquisitiveness increased day by day. Man is a slave to circumstances. Owing to certain domestic anxieties and my incessant instantaneous illness, I could not give my thought fully on it.But deo gratia. the chance came. Heeding after and beading to the unstinted valuable advice of my revered teachers, Prof. Dr. U.N. Dhal (now is no more) and Prof. Dr. Raghunath Panda (at present my honourable guide), I choose the topic for my research work as a result of which the work “Flora in the Bhagavata Purana” could see the light.

It may not be redundant to express my feelings here that before this work, though a number of scholars have taken long strides to work in various topics related to Bha.P. nobody has taken any work to be dealt with the plants as deciphered in the present endeavour. So this is the another reason for which I took this topic and hope this may be appreciated almost by all in future.To an outer angle, though the scope of the work seems to be brief and limited only to the Bhd. P. efforts and pain has been taken from every angle of the plants from primitive age to modern age to limn the study perfect and full-fledged The work is divided into nine chapters with an introduction to its credt. In Introduction, care has been taken to describe the rich and wide variety of flora that India possessed. It is also described here in details that how the trees render a yeoman’s service to the animal kingdom in general and to human beings from birth to death in the way of their varied uses in particular.