Agaru
Agaru, “aloe-wood”
Grammar: masculine and neuter noun; also written aguru.
Meaning: aloe-wood, the tree and its fragrant heartwood, burned as incense.
In the scriptures: at the opening of the Brahma Purāṇa, the Naimisha forest, where the munis had begun a twelve-year satra-yāga and where the Sūta Lomaharshaṇa came to tell the Purāṇa, is described with its trees: among them the mango, jambū, wood-apple, banyan, devadāru, aśvattha, pārijāta, candana, agaru, pāṭala and vakula (Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 1).
Related terms: Aguru · Candana · Naimishāraṇya · Dhūpa
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 1