Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c4.12

c4.12

The question is—did the authors of the three treatises really intend cataloguing some useful prescriptions for utilisation of this knowledge to exhaust the contents of the science contemplated by the term *Vrikshāyurveda*? The answer must be in the negative. If the sections in the three non-Botanical treatises mean anything, it must be that there was in existence an independent treatise or treatises upon which the prescriptions contained in them were based. They may be taken also to mean, no doubt, that the Ancient Botanical Science was developing at first along with the Art of Agriculture before it gained an independent foothold of its own.