Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t3.81

v2.c27.s7.t3.81

¹ [The double jasmine, *Jasminum zambak*.] ² [Sir D. Prain, who has kindly investigated this flower, identifies it with a species of *Bauhinia*. He remarks that “ *B. acuminata*, which differs from *B. purpurea* and *B. variegata*, both in being a smaller plant and in beginning to flower when *B. variegata* does, goes on flowering all through the rains, and still continues to flower when *B. purpurea* is in blossom. It does not flower all the year round in Bengal, and I doubt if it does so in Rājputāna, though Balfour in his *Cyclopaedia* suggests that it does so. My idea is that the term *bārah-māsha* in Upper India should not be taken too literally, and that it is only a figurative way of saying that the particular *Bauhinia* is in flower alongside of both the others when flowering seasons are separated by half the year.”] ³ See the Autobiography of Jahangir, translated by that able Oriental scholar, Major Price [p. 96 f.], for the astonishing feats these jugglers perform in creating not only the tree but the fruit. ⁴ [The Atīt is a mendicant follower of Siva, and the term is usually equivalent to Sannyāsi.]