Types of Trees in KāLidāSa’s Works

Types of Trees in KāLidāSa’s Works

Author Name : Dr. Prahallad Debta

ABSTRACT

Kālidāsa as a poet gives ample emphasis on the plot, technicalities of the poetry as well as on the description of nature While depicting the nature in his works, trees have been given such importance that sometimes the reader gets swayed away and is compelled to think the trees, as human being. He defines the trees, with the peculiarities, classification and sometimes taxonomy of particular tree. Detailed and comparative studies of the trees depicted in his different works in Sanskrit are taken into consideration here with all possible minutes. The different types of trees mentioned in all his works are discussed here with proper examples being arranged alphabetically.

Keywords: Ashoka, Amra, Sahakara, Jambu, Kharjura, Sthalapadma