Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c3.29

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c3.29

Transmission of specific characters; Charaka's enquiry; Charaka and Suśruta's theory of ‘palin-genesis’; Charaka's theory—its comparison with Darwin's ‘gemmules’ and Spencer's ‘ids’; Saṅkara's explanation; Acquired characters; their inheritance; Charaka's solution after Ātreya; the parental *Vīja* is an organic whole independent of the developed parental body and its organs (*cf.* Wiesmann's ‘germplasm’ theory); Ātreya's ‘germplasm’ theory; transmission of acquired characters—Ātreya's explanation ... ... 141-146

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