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Then ignoring the pleadings of the king, she wandered into the sacred grove of Kumara. Her mind bewildered by the curse of her Guru, she failed to notice this transgression into an area forbidden to women. No sooner did she enter, than she was transformed into a vine clinging to a tree at the boundary of the grove. Kalidasa in Vikramorvasiyam (c. 300 A.D.)
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Gadgil, M., Vartak, V.D. The sacred groves of Western Ghats in India. Econ Bot 30, 152–160 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862961
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