Terminalia arjuna (Arjun)
| A large, evergeen tree with buttressed trunk and spreading crown with drooping branches, bark smooth, grey outside and flesh coloured inside, flaking off in large flat pieces; leaves simple, subopposite oblong or elliptic, coriaceous, crenate, pale dull green above, pale brown beneath, often unequal sided nerves, 10-15 pairs, reticulate; flowers white in panicles of spikes with linear bractoles; Fruits ovoid or oblong with 5-7 short, hard angles or wings, the lines on the wings oblique and curving upwards. Flowering-fruiting January to June. (Ashok Sheth (Ed.). 2005 The herbs of ayurveda vol.4 Gujarat : Ashok Sheth. p1102) |
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उत्पश्यामि द्रुतमपि सखे मत्प्रियार्थं यियासोः कालक्षेपं ककुभसुरभौ पर्वते पर्वते ते । शुक्लापाङ्गैः सनयनजलैः स्वागतीकृत्य केकाः प्रत्युद्यातः कथमपि भवान्गन्तुमाशु व्यवस्येत् ॥ २२ ॥ I foresee, O Friend, though quickly you wish to go for my dear one, 見えるよ わが友 私のいとし人のために急ぐけれども |
After taking some water from the Revā river, in the cloud’s journey. |
(c) Tomomi Sato 2013
Plants of Meghaduta 