Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c4.26

c4.26

Also Rasaratnasamuchchaya—Chap. VII, 32 “Such herbalists as are not deceitful and are well-versed in the knowledge of the drugs healing vegetables (*bheshajas*) bear one name, sometimes one vegetable bears various names according to its class, external feature, colour, potency, function (*rasa*), effects, properties and the rest.”