Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c3.14

c3.14

Nourishment—general; Absorption; Transport; Transpiration; Assimilation of food; Planting; essential preliminaries of plantation; methods; graftings; cuttings; final directions of planting; Manuring; Rotation of crops; Treatment of plants, general; signs of the diseased condition; Treatment—prophylactic; curative; application of drugs; Respiration; Movement of plants; their capacity for sleep; their sensitiveness to touch, heat, wind, noise, etc.; movements towards favourable and avoiding what is unfavourable; Growth; its stages; the conditions to be satisfied; Age and death; Consciousness in plants; different views held by different authors; existence of the gift of touch, gift of hearing, sight, power of sense and organ of taste in plants as discussed in the Mahābhārata ; Sexuality ; Reproduction ; six methods of reproduction—*Vījarūha*, *mūlaja*, *skandhaja*, graftings, *parṇayoni* and *Saunarudhaja* 30-65