{"id":80380,"date":"2021-06-01T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=80380"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T11:17:33","slug":"the-story-of-hortus-malabaricus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/the-story-of-hortus-malabaricus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Hortus Malabaricus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80389\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80389 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-01-at-13.28.18.jpeg\" alt=\"Botany Book\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-01-at-13.28.18.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-01-at-13.28.18-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-01-at-13.28.18-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-01-at-13.28.18-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Book on Indigenous plants of Kerala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hortus Malabaricus or the Garden of Malabar, is the oldest printed book on Indian<br \/>\nmedicinal plants. It was the brainchild of H.A. Van Rheede, an aristocrat and soldier in the Dutch<br \/>\nEast Indian Company, who later went on to become the Dutch Governor of Cochin in 1663. It is<br \/>\nperhaps the only authentic record of the ethnobotanical knowledge of ancient Malabar, available<br \/>\nto us today.<br \/>\nOriginally written in the Portugeese language the book was mammoth in size with almost 2400<br \/>\npages, divided into twelve volumes. A total of 742 indegenious plants were listed in the book.<br \/>\nThe pages also shed light on the society back during the time of Dutch rule and its attitude<br \/>\ntowards Science and Culture. Hortus Malabaricus was written before Carl Linnaeus\u2019 Species<br \/>\nPlantarum, the work began in 1663 and the first volume was published in Amsterdam in 1678.<br \/>\nEven though Van Rheede was responsible for bringing together the botanical samples, it was Itty<br \/>\nAchuden Vaidyar, who identified and listed the plants according to their medicinal and<br \/>\nagricultural relevance. Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal, retired professor of Botany at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Calicut did extensive research and spent almost his entire lifetime obsessed after<br \/>\nthis book. He translated the work into English and Malayalam, which was published by the<br \/>\nUniversity of Kerala in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hortus Malabaricus or the Garden of Malabar, is the oldest printed book on Indian medicinal plants. It was the brainchild of H.A. Van Rheede, an aristocrat and soldier in the Dutch East Indian Company, who later went on to become the Dutch Governor of Cochin in 1663. It is perhaps the only authentic record of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80391,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380\/revisions\/80391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}