Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s2.2

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c5.s2.2

The process of germination is technically called *ankuródbheda*, a term which means sprouting, *i.e.*, the awakening of life latent in the seed under certain given conditions. And the conditions are—supply of air, water and warmth. We read in the Suśruta¹:

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Suśrutasaṃhitā — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit