Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s6.8

c5.s6.8

Suśruta¹ describes this region as: “the country which presents a flat surface, and whose dull monotony is enlivened here and there by scanty growths of thorny shrubs, and tops of a few isolated hills and knolls, and in which the waters from springs and wells, accumulated during the rains, become nearly drained, and strong gales of warm wind blow (during the greater part of the year).”