Write a short note on chinar (boune) in kashmiri as a royal tree
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The Chinar, the Oriental (Eastern) Plane tree, Platanus orientalis, or Buen and Booyn in Kashmiri language, is living heritage of Kashmir. It is seen as a symbol for the region, and a part of its soul. It is a majestic tree that can be found throughout the landscape of the valley, hillsides and cities. The oldest found Chinar is thought to have been planted in the year 1374.
Their number has since the 1970s been in a steady decline with over 25,000 trees lost, of the around 42,000 Chinars that were estimated to have existed in those years in Kashmir. The remaining heritage Chinars are rapidly disappearing and at high risk.
The dwindling numbers are one of the sad and symptomatic stories of the environmental and cultural heritage threats that exist in Kashmir, and illustrate the present state-wide ignorance and apathy towards the values of centuries of traditions and harmonic coexistence with nature and place.
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Monarchs like the Mughals, Pathans and Maharajas treated the Chinar as an integral part of Kashmiri’s soul and existence. The Mughals even declared the Buen as the Royal tree. It could not be felled anywhere and it was planted along important roads and routes, and in the many gardens and parks that were being created during the Mughal era.
The Chinar is thought to have been introduced to Kashmir from Persia, well before by the time the Mughals arrived in the region. It is known that the Mughal Emperor Akbar planted Chinars in the valley, after annexing Kashmir in 1586, including an estimated 1,200 trees near the present site of the Hazratbal shrine. Part of Naseem Bagh, which lays near the Hazratbal shrine, survives to this date with hundreds of Chinar trees. It now is a part of the University of Kashmir grounds with university buildings placed under the trees.