Identication of New Medicinal Plants Enumerated In Telugu Cantos of Basavarajeeyam

Abstract

Background: Basavarajeeyam is an essential
manual for Andhra Pradesh's Ayurvedic
physicians. It is a multilingual book that has
information in both Sanskrit and Telugu.
Aim: The plants detailed in the Telugu verses
of Basavarajeeyam are seen to be significant
contributions to the Indian medical system.
With this in mind, a re-identification of those
plants was attempted. Materials and
Procedures: To find and tabulate the herbs,
the whole text was analysed and inspected.
The results of this conceptual analysis were
utilised in a subsequent field study. Botanical
identification was performed using the data
acquired during the field survey. The study
was carried out in collaboration with regional
research centres in the states of Andhra
Pradesh and Karnataka, as well as the
Coimbatore Botanical Survey Unit. Noncontroversial
source plants' Latin names
were included and critically analysed.
Results: There are a total of 268 plants listed
in the Telugu cantos, of which 29 are stated
just once and are not repeated in Sanskrit or
in parentheses. Conclusion: Basavaraju
provided 14 new plants in total, 10 of which
were listed in Telugu cantos and 4 of which
were referenced elsewhere in the book.