Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.129

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c5.s5.129

6. Respiration.—Respiration in plants in the modern sense was perhaps unknown to the ancient Indians. But the injurious effects of carbon dioxide (a gas given out by the plants during respiration) seems to be not unknown to them, a fact which is evident from an injunction of Manu.¹ Thus :

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Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit