Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.16

c6.16

I may also add that the continued identity of the “germ-plasm” ( बीज ) from generation to generation, though it follows as a corollary from this doctrine of a distinct reproductive tissue, even when conceived to be affected by somatic processes, as *Atreya* and *Charaka* conceive it