Animals; Animals History; Botany; Botany History; Bouddhisme Histoire=Buddhism History; Buddhism; Buddhism History To ca. 100 A.D History; Phytotherapy history; Plant Extracts therapeutic use; Plants, Medicinal history; Religion and Medicine history
摘要
The first attempt to identify the plants in the Tipiṭaka was made by Robert Childers in his A Dictionary of the Pali Language of 1876. Childers gave about 165 plant names and provided the Linnaean nomenclature for most of these. However, more than half these names are from Pali works composed in Sri Lanka and are not mentioned in the Tipiṭaka itself. Rhys Davids and Stede’s Pali English Dictionary published between 1921–25, includes about 420 Pali plant names with the botanical names for about a third of these. Included also are about 185 animal names of which only eight include the zoological names. It is unclear what authority Rhys Davids and Stede used for the nomenclature they did give but they seem to have relied heavily on Monier-William’s Sanskrit English Dictionary. A thorough compilation of material on flora, fauna and the environment from the Pali Tipiṭaka is more than justified. Despite being a rich source of information on these subjects Indian scholars have largely ignored Pali literature.
目次
Preface Preface to the Second Edition Foreword Nature and the Environment as Depicted in the Pali Tipiṭaka Flora and Fauna in the Pali Tipiṭaka Medical Plants in the Pali Tipiṭaka and Their Uses English-Pali Glossary Abbreviations Select Bibliography General Index Index of Pali names of Animals and Plants Index of Scientific Names
