Description
Sans & Bengs- Bhurjapatra Hindi – Bhujpattra bom – bhojapatra.
Uses : The bark of Himalayan birch was used centuries ago in India as paper for writing lengthy scriptures and texts in Sanskrit and other scripts, particularly in historical Kashmir. Its use as paper for books is mentioned by early Sanskrit writers Kalidasa ,Sushruta and Varahamihira . In the late , Kashmiri pandits reported all of their books were written on Himalayan birch bark until Akbar introduced by the Sanskrit word for the tree is bhûrja—sharing a similarity with other Indo-European words that provide the origin for the common name “birch” etc.
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