Bambusa arundinacea (Thorny Bamboo)
A tall thorny bamboo upto 30 m in height with many stems, tufted on stout root stock, nodes prominent, the lowest rooting, internodes upto 45 cm long, stem sheath coriaceous, orange-yellow, streaked, glabrous or puberulous beneath, base rounded, ciliate, tip stiff, midrib narrow, leaf sheaths with a short bristly buricle, ligule short; spikelets glabrous, yellow or yellow-ish green, in very long panicles, often occupying the whole ste, floral glumes, 3-7 in number, the uppermost 1-3 male or neuter, lodicules 3, hyaline, 1-3 nerved, ciliate; fruits oblong grains, beaked by the style base, grooved on one side. Flowering – fruiting September to April. (Ashok Sheth (Ed.). 2005 The herbs of ayurveda vol.1 Gujarat : Ashok Sheth. p152) |
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शब्दायन्ते मधुरमनिलैः कीचकाः पूर्यमाणाः संरक्ताभिस्त्रिपुरविजयो गीयते किंनरीभिः । निर्ह्रादी ते मुरज इव चेत्कन्दरासु ध्वनिः स्यात् संगीतार्थो ननु पशुपतेस्तत्र भावी समस्तः ॥ ५६ ॥ Kīcakas ring in sweet sounds as the winds run through, |
In the cloud’s journey. The soft clattering sound of the bamboo leaves makes the bamboos musicians of Śiva. |
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तन्मध्ये च स्फटिकफलका काञ्चनी वासयष्टिर् मूले नद्धा मणिभिरनतिप्रौढवंशप्रकाशैः । तालैः शिञ्जद्वलयसुभगैर्नर्तितः कान्तया मे यामध्यास्ते दिवसविगमे नीलकण्ठः सु्हृद्वः ॥ ७६ ॥ And in the middle is a golden perch with a crystal bench, |
Somewhere near the Yakṣa’s home in Alakā. Perhaps in the middle of Aśoka and Kesara from the previous verse. Vaṁśa is used to describe the colour of some green gem. |
(c) Tomomi Sato 2013
Plants of Meghaduta 