Since I have been made a Laurel I have been looking for a period Indian depiction of a laurel wreath. Almost everything depicted in SCA regalia looks more Greek or Roman to my eyes. I didn’t know if there was a depiction of anything more Mughal I could find. Spoiler: I did not find such an image. The Persian and Mughal artists were very enchanted with flora of their regions, depicting them on the borders of miniatures and in their garden scenes. But their images were naturalistic, and I could not find a depiction of either bay leaves, laurel leaves, or any leaves twisted into the shape of a chaplet. I was getting ready to chuck the idea out the window when I stumbled upon an interesting note while I was doing research for another project. The Purananuru, an anthology of 400 poems written between the 1st and 3rd century CE, describes the wars, cattle raids, Kings, bards and battles of the Tamil people during the Sangam era . (1) Rather like the Victorian language of flowers(2), the
Research and musings of a SCAdian