Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s10.2

c5.s10.2

Thus the result of our enquiry is that various observations of plant-life which are of scientific value, are contained in different Indian works and traditions. We cannot but appreciate the keenness of spirit shown. Unfortunately this spirit was not rigorously separated from fanciful superstitions and myth-making, with the result that the science of plant and plant-life could not make any further advance as a science. It degenerated into an art, and from art into an artifice. The soul fled and only the body remains.