The Hari-bhakti-vilasa particularly glorifies the following flowers (which we have identified, as far as possible, with Latin or local names:
jati (jasmine: Jasminum grandiflorum),
red and white lotuses,
malati (jasmine),
kadamba (Nauclea cadamba),
mango buds,
mallika (night-blooming jasmine),
double jasmine (Linum usitatissimum),
madhavi (spring flower: Gaertnera racemosa),
campaka (Michelia campaka),
frangipani (a kind of magnolia),
asoka (Jonesia asoka roxb.),
karnikara (Pterospiternum acerfolium, Cassia fistula, or kaniyar),
jhintika (Balena cristata),
karavi (Celosia cristata, the asafetida plant),
yuthika (Jasminum auriculatum),
mandara (a white variety of Calotropis gigantea),
patala (Bignonia suaveolens),
bakula (Mimusops elengi),
tila (Sesamum indicum),
japa (China rose),
bilva (Aegle marmelos, bel, or wood apple),
white kutaja, ketaki (Pandanus odoratissimus),
pitaka (Odina pennata; saffron),
tagara (Tabernoemontana coronaria, moonbeam, or waxflower),
palasa (Butea frondosa), and
kumuda (white water lily).
