Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c4.30

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and plants, and in the language of many countries should be employed.” (P C. Roy’s History of Hindu Chemistry, Vol. I, p. 65. Calcutta, 1902.) Also the final test to which Bhikshu Atreya, the celebrated teacher of medicine in the University of Taxila, put his equally celebrated pupil Jivaka, afterwards the physician of Bimbisāra, in collecting, identifying and describing the properties of plants to be found within four Yojanas of the University town. (Vijayratna Sen—Preface to Viraja Charan Sen Gupta’s Vanaushadhi-Darpaṇa, Vol. I, 1908).