Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.13

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² Charaka, Śārīrasthāna, III, 22-26; English Translation, Fasc. 23, p. 730; Fasc. 24, Sec. 29, p. 733. “Verily, in the seed from which the body springs, there are particular portions from which particular limbs grow. When a particular portion of the seed, therefore, is burnt up or consumed, the particular limb which would have grown out of it becomes deformed. No deformities again, occur if no portion of the seed becomes burnt up or consumed.” Abināś Ch. Kaviratna’s translation of the text,