[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s9.37 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s9.37 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s9.37 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s9.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s9.37) Oṣadhi.—Roughly speaking, the vegetable world is divided in Vedic literature¹ between Oṣadhi or Virudh ‘plants’ and Vana or Vṛkṣa ‘trees.’ Oṣadhi is employed in opposition to Vīrudh to denote plants as possessing a healing power or some other quality useful to men, while Vīrudh is rather a generic term for minor vegetable growths, but sometimes,² when occurring beside Oṣadhi, signifies those plants which do not possess medicinal properties. - [Previous: v1.c3.s9.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s9.36) - [Next: v1.c3.s9.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s9.38) - [Up: v1.c3.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s9.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s9.37) · Pramāṇa