Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c2.6

c2.6

Among the works consulted I must acknowledge my immense debt to Dr. B. N. Seal's "The Positive Science of the Ancient Hindus." I have freely utilised the translations of the Vedic hymns, the Charaka and Suśruta-saṃhitās, and other original texts rendered by authors whose names have been mentioned at proper places. I regret that from want of time I have not been able to verify all the Latin synonyms of the plants mentioned in the work, and in some cases the Latin equivalents have not been given at all. This is an omission which I hope to rectify should a second edition of the work be called for. I have no pretension to Oriental Scholarship, nor am I a Sanskritist. I cannot perhaps claim