Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.8

c5.s5.8

the principal source of sustenance. It is roughly divided into urvvarā (सर्व्वशस्याढ्या—fertile with every crop), and ūshara¹ (barren or sterile on which nothing can grow). The fertile soil being that which is capable of supplying the plants with their necessary food materials while the sterile soil is that which does not possess this capacity.