Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.20

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c5.s5.20

We have so long hypothetically assumed the existence of the leaf as the centre of sucking force, and practically the kitchen where the food of plants is prepared. What warrants us in the assumption? Besides the full-fledged development of the scientific knowledge of nutrition, we have in some of the provincial proverbs attributed to the mythical Khanā, the depository of the wisdom of ages, a distinct knowledge of the function of leaves in the maintenance of plant-life pre-supposed. A proverb¹ runs :

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