Mangifera indica (Mango tree)
| A large, spreading, evergreen tree upto 45 m in height with a heavy doom shaped crown, straight, stout bole and thick rogh dark grey bark; leaves simple, crowded at the end of branches, linear-oblong, or elliptic lanceolate, acute, acuminate or sub-obtuse; flowers small, pungently odorous, reddish-white or yellowish-green. in large many-flowered pubescent panicles, longer than the leaves; fruits large, fleshy drupes, green, orange, yellow or red in colour, seed solitary, enclosed in a hard compressed fibrous endocarp. Flowering-fruiting January to June. (Ashok Sheth (Ed.). 2005 The herbs of ayurveda vol.3 Gujarat : Ashok Sheth. p732) |
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छन्नोपान्तः परिणतफलद्योतिभिः काननाम्रैस् त्वय्यारुधे शिखरमचलः स्निग्धवेणीसवर्णे । नूनं यस्यत्यमरमिथुनप्रेक्षणीयामवस्थां मध्ये श्यामः स्तन इव भुवः शेषविस्तारपाण्डुः ॥ १८ ॥ The mountain’s surface is covered by the shining ripe fruits of the wild Āmras; 山腹は野生のアームラに覆われ 熟した果実がきらめき |
At the Āmrakūṭa mountain in the cloud’s journey. The literal translation of the first line would be: “The surface which is covered by the wild Āmras, of which leaning fruits are shining”. And that shining becomes the “pale spread”, resembling the fair skin of women’s breast not burnt by the sun. |
(c) Tomomi Sato 2013
Plants of Meghaduta 