Birds in Sanskrit Literature: With 107 Bird IllustrationsMotilal Banarsidass Publishe, 2005 - 516 pages In his monumental research in ancient sanskrit literature the author has restored gaps in lexicons and removed doubts in the later sanskrit works about the identity of a very large number of birds of the Indian sub-continent. The ancient sages of India were great lovers of nature with keen powers of observation and an extraordinary sensitivity about aninal behaviour. The Vedas Puranas, Epics and Samhitas are full of descriptions of birds, animals and plants but the exact identification of names had got lost or confounded over the centuries. |
Table des matières
Crows and Their Allies | 1 |
B Choughs | 9 |
Nutcrackers | 11 |
E Jays and Rollers | 15 |
Tits | 21 |
Parrotbills and Suthoras | 23 |
Nuthatches | 24 |
Laughing Thrushes Babblers | 28 |
Frogmouths | 172 |
The Barn Owl | 173 |
Other Owls | 175 |
Osprey | 185 |
Vultures Lammergeyer | 188 |
B Hawk Eagles Serpent Eagles and Buzzard Eagles | 210 |
Sea Eagles Fishing Eagles | 212 |
Falcons and Hawks | 215 |
B Birds of the size of a Sparrow | 31 |
Bulbuls | 34 |
Tree creepers | 40 |
Wrens | 42 |
Dippers | 43 |
The Thrush Family | 44 |
Fly Catchers | 53 |
Shrikes | 57 |
Minivets | 58 |
Swallowshrikes | 61 |
Drongos | 62 |
Warblers | 68 |
Goldcrests | 70 |
The Fairy Bluebird | 71 |
Orioles | 72 |
Grackles or HillMynas | 81 |
Starlings and Mynas | 84 |
Weaverbirds and Munias | 88 |
B Munias | 89 |
Finches and Buntings | 92 |
B Buntings | 95 |
Waxwing | 97 |
Martins Swallows | 98 |
Wagtails and Pipits | 102 |
B Pipits | 107 |
Larks | 108 |
The White Eye | 112 |
The Rubycheek | 113 |
The SunBirds | 114 |
Flowerpeckers | 116 |
Pittas | 117 |
Broadbills | 118 |
Woodpeckers | 119 |
Barbets | 123 |
Honeyguide | 126 |
Cuckoos | 127 |
B NonParasitic Cuckoos | 137 |
Paroquets or Parrots | 141 |
Rollers | 146 |
The Beeeaters | 147 |
The Kingfishers | 155 |
Hornbills | 159 |
Hoopoes | 162 |
The Trogons | 164 |
Swifts | 165 |
Nightjars | 170 |
Falcons | 221 |
Hawks | 235 |
E Kites Harriers and Buzzards | 242 |
Pigeons and Doves | 250 |
B Pigeons | 252 |
Doves | 257 |
SandGrouse | 265 |
PeaFowl Jungle Fowls Pheasants Quails | 268 |
A Peafowl | 270 |
B Jungle Fowls and Pheasants | 271 |
Tragopans Blood Pheasants Partridges | 279 |
Quails and Bustard Quails | 284 |
Magapodes | 290 |
Bustard Quails | 291 |
Rails Crakes Moorhens Watercocks Coot | 292 |
Masked Finfoot | 303 |
Jacanas | 304 |
The Painted Snipe | 307 |
Cranes | 309 |
Bustards | 325 |
StonePlovers | 332 |
Coursers Pratincoles | 333 |
CrabPlovers | 336 |
Skuas | 337 |
Gulls | 338 |
Terns | 345 |
Skimmer or Scissorbill | 351 |
Plovers | 357 |
Curlew Godwit Sandpiper etc | 364 |
Pelicans | 370 |
Cormorants Darter | 371 |
Gannet or Booby | 376 |
Tropic Bird | 377 |
Erigatebird | 378 |
Petrels | 379 |
Spoonbill | 380 |
Ibises | 381 |
Storks | 389 |
Herons Egrets and Bitterns | 400 |
Flamingos | 408 |
Swans Geese Ducks and Mergansers | 422 |
Grebes | 461 |
Divers | 463 |
465 | |
SanskritPaliPrakrit Index | 483 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Adjutant adnoun Bar-head beautiful Bee-eater bill bird's Black Drongo Black Ibis blue Brahminy Kite breeding brown Bulbul Bustard colour Common Common Crane Common Myna Corvus Crane Crested Crow Cuckoo Demoiselle Crane described Drongo Duck epithet equation Falcon feathers female Fishing Eagle Flamingo flight Geese genus Golden Eagle Grey Grey Lag Gull habits Hawk head Heron Himalayan Hindi Hindi name Indian Indian Roller insects kind of bird Kite known lexicons Mahābhārata male means mentioned Myna neck Nepal nest noisy North India numbers Oriole Pallas's Fishing Eagle Partridge Peacock Pheasant Pigeon plumage Prakrit probably Quail refer rendered Ṛgveda Sansk Sanskrit Sarus Shikra Sparrow species Stork Swan synonymous synonymy tail Tern tree Vedic verse Vulture Wagtail White Ibis White Wagtail wings yellow Yellow Wagtail अमर इव कपोत कल्पद्रुकोश कुक्कुट चरक तु दात्यूह महाभारत रामायण वसन्तराज वा वैजयन्ती शब्दकल्पद्रुम संहिता सुश्रुत हंस हेमचन्द्र