Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s1.2
Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s1.2
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c5.s1.2
The daring philosophic speculations and fanciful popular notions are always in advance of science. The hymns of the Vedas, the texts of the Upanishads, the Epics and Purāṇas, the Buddhist and Jaina canonical works and commentaries, the medical treatises of Charaka and Suśruta, the lexicon of Amara and such other works yield us plenty of materials indicating how the knowledge of plants and plant-life came into clear recognition, and the Botanical science developed on various lines. The information culled from these sources can be considered under the following heads :
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- Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit
- Suśrutasaṃhitā — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit
- Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana (Amarakośa) — Classical Tibetan
- Veda — Sanskrit
- Purāṇa — Sanskrit
- Upanishads — Sanskrit