Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.t2.75

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c6.t2.75

The vital importance of the problem of virility was recognised by the Ancients in India and their medical science, even in its infancy, attacked it, and found out remedies both for increasing man's virility on the one hand and for destroying it on the other. In harmony with the spirit of the time the aid of medicinal plants used to be called for in impairing the virility of the opponents—a fact characteristically symptomatic of the then state of civilisation and culture. Very allied to the problem of virility is the problem of amatory success and we find a large number of plants mentioned in the Atharvanic hymns applied for the purpose, of course with supernatural aid in the shape of invocations and incantations. The following hymns deal with these topics :

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