Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions
Indian botany from Vedic, medical and agricultural texts: plant morphology, physiology, classification, nomenclature, ecology, Vṛkṣāyurveda (Griffith Prize essay).
- Language
- English
- Author
- Girija Prasanna Majumdar
- Extent
- 1,578 passages, 49,399 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: University of Calcutta 1927; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Girija Prasanna Majumdar †1959); published before…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 39 parts
- c2 Preface — 11 parts
- c3 Contents — 58 parts
- c4 Introduction: Was There a Science of Botany? — 36 parts
- c5 Book I. Botany and Philosophic Speculations — 15 parts
- c6 Appendix A. Heredity — 82 parts
- c7 Conclusion — 5 parts
- c8 Bibliography — 47 parts
- c9 General Index — 24 parts
- c10 List of Plants — 57 parts
- c11 Opinion — 32 parts