kar-kal

Updated: May 11, 2025

Speaking of the Victoria Gardens at Bombay, he says: "A true Persian in flowing robe of blue, and on his head his sheep-skin hat black, glossy, curled, the fleece of Kar-Kal would saunter in, and stand and meditate over every flower he saw, and always as if half in vision.

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants