Bamboo is a part of grass family and one of the fastest growing plants in earth. The word bamboo comes from the Kannada term bambu, which was introduced to English through Malay. Bamboos have an economic and cultural significance in India. Wet Hill areas up to a 1000 meter height are best suited for the growth of bamboo. Kerala’s semi evergreen rain forests and deciduous (falling off) forests contains bamboos in large numbers. Bamboo is hollow and it’s not so hard. It moves back and forth according to the wind fluctuation, Bamboo creates music in its movement. In general, people born in punarvasu nakshatra are interested in music and dance. Bamboo is used for creating musical instruments. Wet tropical rainforest is a place where you scarcely see bamboo. Scientifically bamboos are classified as
Kingdom :Plantae
Order :Poales
Family :Poaceae
Subfamily :Bambusoideae
Supertribe :Bambusodae
Tribe :Bambuseae
“Dhandhasukhie sushiloo
Dhurmedha rogabak pipasumcha
Alpena cha sansthushtaha
Punavasuo jayathe manuja:”
The sloka mentioned above means that People born in punarvasu star are usually willing to find their happiness in charity, loves the comfort around them and they are soft in nature. Their dedication and interest in agriculture makes them unique in the society. Usually Punarvasu star natives will have a thirst to water and they are happy with what they posses. They are happy to fast to get the blessings from god. They are relatively simple and would cause no harm to none and easily reachable to everyone.
Punarvasu star is much suitable to the work related to agriculture, fasting, peaceful acts, blessed deeds or action & start to learn new things. Bamboo is so similar to the punarvasu native because it have a number of qualities useful for a layman and it is causing no harm to none and easily reachable to everyone.
People born in punarvasu usually maintain good relationship with everyone. They will have a lot of good friends and they show leadership qualities as well. They will show a winning mentality and always strive to become a success in life. Sri Rama was also born in Punarvasu star.
Bamboo Names in various languages.
Sankrit: Samsa,Vamsalekhana,Venu
Hindi: Banz,Thapazeer
Bengali: Bomsa,Banz
Tamil: Mungil,Mugilippu
Kannada:Thavakshari
Telugu:Bonge,Mullaveduru
English: Bamboo
Bamboos grow up to 12 m to 30 m height, as cohort and its stem are in the form of a cylinder. Usually larger bamboo stem will have a diameter of 15 to 20 cm, they are black, green, yellow in colour they grow faster but easier to brake. In its lifespan only once it will get flowered and its flowers are Pale green in colour, once the flowers are about to open it will conceive water vapour and will make itself a larger. Its seed is just as same as rice seed.
Bamboo is having a thirst for sunlight and it can bear small fire and frost. Fun is that all the bamboos in its lifetime are flowered as a group and once the seeds are opened they will be a dead cohort. Bamboo will stop growing its stems before 2 years it’s about to get flowered. During this period, new branches of bamboo will not grow. Bamboos about to get flowered won’t contain silica much but will have carbohydrate in abundance. usually bamboo seed’s will not have a longer life. If we keep the seed along with calcium chloride we can extend its life up to one year.
The softer parts of the bamboo and it seed are eatable’s but only after cooking, if not cooked it’s not suggested to eat. The seeds can be eaten and cooked just like rice. Within the hollow cylindrical side of the bamboo sometimes we can see a wet white hard mixture which is called as mulavenna or mulanooru or vangarochana in kerala. In some parts of south India it is also called as kheeri, thavaksheeri, thuga, sugaksheeri, vamsi, subhaa, etc. 90% of Mulanooru contains silica and remaining 10 % is a combination of potash, lime (material), aluminum and iron composites. Bamboo used as an ingredient in Ayurvedic medicines to control menses.
