• The Uttarakhand forest department has developed an ethnobotanical garden at Haldwani over one acre of land to showcase ecological and environmental knowledge in Mahabharata and grown 37 plant species mentioned in the epic.
• “Mahabharata Vatika” has plant species mentioned in 18 sections of Mahabharata.
• Lord Ram came across four types of forests—Chitrakoot (tropical deciduous), Dandakarnanya (tropical deciduous ), Panchavati (tropical dry deciduous ), and Kishkindha (dry and moist deciduous)—during his journey from Ayodhya to Sri Lanka.
• Ashok Vatika [evergreen] is associated with Sita while Dronagiri [alpine forest] is associated with Lord Hanuman.”

Date: Current Affairs - 04-01-2025
Category: State News

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