Around a Medicinal Creeper Vocabulary Flashcards

Flashcards covering the key people, plot points, and vocabulary from the lecture on 'Around a Medicinal Creeper' by K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi.

K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi

A prominent Kannada writer, novelist, photographer, ornithologist, and environmentalist who inaugurated the bandaya epoch.

Abachoorina Post Offisu

The short-story collection by Tejaswi that inaugurated the bandaya epoch.

Mara

A forest worker who tells many bizarre stories, some true and some imaginary, about a mysterious medicinal creeper.

The Sage's Curse

A curse on the medicinal creeper that prevents people from finding it when it is needed, requiring it to be tied to a nearby plant when discovered.

Hulihindalu

The location where a white man offered Mara his entire plantation in exchange for showing him the medicinal plant.

Teeth Fall Out Tale

A claim by Mara that using a stick from a certain plant to brush his teeth near a stream caused all the teeth on the right side of his mouth to fall out.

The Barking Deer Tale

A story where meat from a barking deer, divided and wrapped in leaves, turned back into a live wild buck that ran away.

Scientific Test Result

When the narrator mixed the creeper leaves with milk in a mixer, it became firm and rubbery within minutes.

Krishna

The narrator's former farmhand who suffered from piles and was cured by the medicinal creeper's tuberous root.

Malayali sadhu

The person who instructed Krishna to find a tuberous root, mix it with milk, and drink it for $5$ days to cure his piles.

Cure and Personal Relief

The outcome where Krishna was cured within $5$ days and the narrator's painful swelling on his right heel disappeared after eating the root.

Native Medicinal Systems Critique

The story's criticism of the mystification of Indian medicine and the belief that sharing knowledge causes medicine to lose its potency.

bizarre

Very strange or unusual.

glean

To obtain information or knowledge with difficulty.

ignoramus

A person who does not have much knowledge.

cringe

To move back or away from somebody because you are afraid.

bunkum

Nonsense.