Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s8.10

c5.s8.10

“Earth is the source of this creation—movable and immovable, for it supplies them with the constituents of their body ; and water again is the root cause of earth for earth is begotten of water ; the essence of water is embodied in plants such as grasses, creepers and the rest, flowers represent the essence of plants, and the essence of flowers are fruits, such as paddy, wheat and the rest.”