Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.69

c6.69

These details seem to be an elaboration of what we get in a synoptical form in the three hymns of the *Rig Veda* just quoted. There are points of similarity between the two; nay, there is essential identity. The latter seems to be an only elaborate edition, a popular commentary of the former. How are we to explain this? Either the details of the *Atharva Veda* must be a development from and a lengthy explanation of the things we get in the *Rik*, or the *Rik* hymns give us a summary of the things so universally known.