Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s6.28

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c5.s6.28

The names *Kuśadvīpa*, *Plakshadvīpa*, *Śālmalī-dvīpa*, etc., for the different islands in the Purāṇas, may be indicative of places where these particular plants—*Kuśa* (*Poa cynosuroides*), *Plaksha* (*Ficus infectoria*), *Śālmalī* (*Bombax malabaricum*), etc., predominated.

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