Study of religious plants of aboriginal people of the Vindhya Region
Kanhaiya Lal Kumhar*
Department of Botany, S.V.P.S.P.G. College, Umarria-452001 (India)
ABSTRACT
The people live in the remote area of forests. They are called Aadivasi or aboriginal persons. They basically depend on forest for every need of life. They use food, fodder, fuel, vegetable and medicine from forest products. This topic is very sensitive and pertinent to social management. They are very near to nature and worship god and goddess of forest. In ancient times, some areas of earth have been protected along with the plants by the aboriginals. The Aadivasi people indirectly also preserve and conserve the national environmental properties. They use only required and necessary plants for their social, cultural, religious, food, therapeutic and shelter. By these activities they do not disturb our ecosystem. Many economical and medicinal plants are saved from our lands and preserved for future use. The present paper deals with 10 species of plants, belonging to 09 genera and nine famlies which are used by the tribals in various activities pertaining to religion.