Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.115

c5.s5.115

Guṇaratna in his commentary³ writes— “ Just as the human body is subject to jaundice, dropsy, shofa (?), emaciation and defects (dwarfness) of finger, nose, etc., etc., so also plants suffer from similar diseases such as inception of disease, displacement or dislocation of flower, fruit, leaves, bark.”