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Coconut – History, Uses, and Folklore
Coconut palm is considered as a native of Malesia, a bio-geographical region that includes Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, and several Pacifi c Island groups. Coconut has been recorded in archaeological excavations and epigraphic inscriptions, in Sanskrit scriptures of religious, a...
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Asian Agri-History
2014
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| On-line přístup: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004622.pdf |
| Shrnutí: | Coconut palm is considered as a native of Malesia, a bio-geographical region that includes
Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, and several Pacifi c Island groups. Coconut has
been recorded in archaeological excavations and epigraphic inscriptions, in Sanskrit scriptures of
religious, agricultural, and Ayurvedic importance, and in historical records as well as travelogues
of visitors from China, Arab, and Italy. Its usefulness and multiplicity of uses has earned it
epithets like “Tree of life”, “Tree of heaven”, “Tree of abundance”, and “Kalpavriksha” (a tree
that provides all necessities of life). In addition to its food value, it has health, medicinal, and
cosmetic value. Coconut occupies a special and a higher place among the many articles used in
religious offerings to Almighty God. In India no religious offer is acceptable without a coconut.
It is used in religious and social ceremonies even in areas where it is not grown. Not an inch of
the tree goes waste and all parts are put to some working use. Through its innumerable working
utilities and direct uses as food, feed, and drink, coconut has penetrated into the cultural, social,
religious, and lingual matrix of people of various countries. This paper deals with the history
through archaeological, epigraphic, and historical records and its uses and related folklore. |
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| Fyzický popis: | p.221–248 Vol. 18, No. 3, 2014 |