Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s8.13

c5.s8.13

appear once more, and the natural seasons come into existence. Meanwhile the cooling process goes on. As the juicy earth gradually becomes hardened, it loses its flavour and sweet taste, but vegetation first of low, then higher grade evolves. Man descends at length from his heavenly ancestors—from the vital Sun or the reflective Moon."