Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.36

c5.s5.36

Upāskara commenting on the above aphorism explains :—“ Water poured at the roots goes up in all directions through the interior of a tree. Neither impulse, nor impact, nor the sun’s rays prevail there. How then is it caused ? The action by which waters rise, and cause the growth of the tree results from conjunction of destiny with the souls of those in whose souls pleasure and pain is effected by the growth of the leaves, stem, fruit, flowers etc., as its non-coherent cause ; from destiny as its efficient cause, and in water as its co-inherent cause.”²