Pārijāta (Tree)
Pārijāta · pārijāta, “the pārijāta tree”
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Grammar: masculine noun: the pārijāta, a flowering tree.
Meaning: a flowering tree of the earth, named with the other great trees of a sacred forest. The same name is borne by the divine Pārijāta of svarga, which is a different subject.
In the scriptures: the Brahma Purāṇa opens in Naimishāraṇya, the most holy and supremely beautiful forest, crowded with munis and shining with flowers of many kinds, where the munis had begun a twelve-year satra and where Lomaharshaṇa the Sūta came and told them the Purāṇa. Among its great trees the text names, in order, the sarala, panasa (jackfruit), dhava, mango, jambū, wood-apple, banyan, devadāru, aśvattha, pārijāta, candana (sandal), agaru (aloe-wood), pāṭala, vakula, saptaparṇa, punnāga, nāgakesara, śāla, tāla (palmyra), tamāla, nārikela (coconut), arjuna and others, with creepers such as the campaka (Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 1).
Related terms: Naimishāraṇya · Vṛksha · Pārijāta (the divine tree of svarga) · Candana · Aśvattha
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 1