Lexicographical Neighbors of Mahua
Literary usage of Mahua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"For tables of constants see p. 701. mahua butter is the fat obtained from the
seeds of Bassia latifolia, and must not be confounded with ..."
2. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"In preparing working- plans for forests in which the mahua occurs, it is necessary
in general to provide for protection of the older and best-bearing trees ..."
3. The Indian Forester (1896)
"... even in the height of intestine warfare, no one shall attempt to set his
enemy's harvest on fire." - AC" A Disease of the mahua Tree (Cassia Latifolia). ..."
4. The Forests of Upper India and Their Inhabitants by Thomas W. Webber (1902)
"In Central India every village claims its area of mahua-trees, and even in the
furthest jungle every tree has an owner, and descends from father to son as a ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"Wearing on the right wrist a bracelet of the leaves of the mahua, the bride walks
round the tree seven times, and then sits on her mother's lap on the ..."
6. The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, Southwestern Asia, and by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1894)
"... or born of madhu, and made them make the mahua their sacred tree. It is from
this tree that the drink called madhu is now distilled, ..."
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