Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.10

c6.10

*Śaṅkara*¹ similarly states that the sperm-cell (or the seed in the case of a plant) represents in miniature every organ of the parent organism, and contains in *potentia* the whole organism that is developed out of it (शरीरधात्वात्मा शुक्रभूतः अङ्गादङ्गात् सम्भवति ).