16. Asoka (Saraca indica) is an evergreen tree with orange and red flowers, similar to Ixora in 3.5. Its beauty in the present Maharashtra region, described by the botanist Firminger, is quoted by R.S. Pandit.
17. Atimukta is described by R.S. Pandit as ‘one of the most delightful of jasmines . . . that perfumes gardens with its lovely fragrance’.
18. Kurabaka is the tree Cedrela toona, with long leaves and flowers of a honey-like scent.
19. This tree is the Butea frondosa, called palasha or kimshuka in Sanskrit and well known for its flowers.
20. See 6.5 above.
Additional Verses
13. See 4.1 and 6.18.
15. The last line of this verse is a traditional description of the god of love.
16. See 6.16.
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