Flora, since the dawn of civilization, has occupied a great place in human life. Puranas are encyclopaedic in nature. Besides dealing with the five characteristics in a regular manner, they take note of the role of flora in different stages of human life. From among the esteemed Indian Puranas, the Bhagavata Mahapurana deals with many fecets of trees like their general usefulness in domestic life of spiritual importance.

Although to an outer angle, the scope of the work seems to be brief and limited only to Bhagavata Purana; efforts and pain has been taken from every angle of the plants from primitive age to modern age to limn the study perfect and full-fledged. The author has introduced nine chapters dealing with several facts of trees and plants besides the vast introduction chapter and the chapter of wise conclusion.

It may not be redundant to state the work Flora in the Bhagavata Purana will help to remove misconception of many people in India and abroad that Puranas are the meaningless narrations of cock and bull stories of an intelligent mass of ancient times having no scientific moorings behind them and establish the use of scientific observation and identify many elements around us in the form of flora to make human life more significant and worthliving.

Content - Acknowledgement,  Preface,  Foreward,  Abbreviations,  Transliteration, INTRODUCTION, Chapter - I : TREE WORSHIP : ITS ANTIQUITY  AND ITS PLACE IN RELIGION, Chapter - II : ADORATION OF TREE-WORSHIP AROUND THE GLOBE, Chapter - III : TREE WORSHIP IN INDIA,  Chapter - IV : THE PURANAS AS A CLASS OF LITERATURE, Chapter - V : THE PLACE OF BHAGAVATAPURANA IN SANSKRIT LITERATURE : AN OVERALL VIEW, Chapter - VI : MOST ACCREDITED PLANTS IN BHAGAVATAPURANA,  Chapter - VII : FLOWERS, FLOWERING-CREEPERS, SHRUBS AND GRASSES, Chapter - VIII : FRUITS, ROOTS AND UNUSUAL PLANTS, Chapter - IX : EPILOGUE, Glossary of Plants found in the Text, A Selected Bibliography