Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s7.70

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c5.s7.70

It may be noticed that the Hindu nomenclature of plants went further in this direction, being not satisfied with giving them denominations after particular features. It gave most of the plants double names—one based on a salient external feature (परिचयज्ञापिका संज्ञा), and the other on some prominent medicinal or other properties (गुणप्रकाशिका संज्ञा). Thus:

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