caa a22 4500 465776663 CHVBK 20180323111943.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00045899 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00045899 Temple forests in India's forest development [Elektronische Daten] [M. Chandrakanth, J. Gilless, V. Gowramma, M. Nagaraja] Historically the temple forests in India have served many spiritual and religious purposes. This paper stresses on the use of the underused repertoire of sacred acts to integrate the benefits of temple forests in rural development. The tree/plant species, planting design and the rituals related to their worship documented in the great epics, vedas and upanishads are of great value especially in the context of promoting forest development and the forest development led agricultural development. The Star, Planet and Zodiac forests contain a large number of native tree species ideally suited to tropical stress and drought. The promotion of temple forests would help developing forests in the upstream areas which can help create climax forests and aid in soil and moisture conservation to help improve the productivity of downstream agriculture. As the chief utilitarian value of these temple trees and plants is in terms of the native (ayurvedic) medicine, their propagation would not only develop the downsteam farming opportunities, but also promote the native medicine sector. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Temple nationallicence institution nationallicence worship nationallicence star nationallicence planet nationallicence zodiac nationallicence Chandrakanth M. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Gilless J. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Gowramma V. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Nagaraja M. Karnataka History Academy, Bangalore, India aut Agroforestry Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 11/3(1990-09-01), 199-211 0167-4366 11:3<199 1990 11 10457 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00045899 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00045899 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chandrakanth M. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gilless J. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gowramma V. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nagaraja M. Karnataka History Academy, Bangalore, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Agroforestry Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 11/3(1990-09-01), 199-211 0167-4366 11:3<199 1990 11 10457 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer