Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.t3.95

c6.t3.95

This hymn conveys a beautiful tribute to rain which is a vitally necessary agency in the luxurious development of herbs and plants. The connection between rain and the growth of corn is gratefully and poetically acknowledged. The condition of Agriculture in India is precisely the same now as it was in the days of the Atharva, and the following invocation of rain might well be put in the mouth of a devout peasant to-day:—“let the mighty liberal ones cause to behold together; let the juices of the waters attach themselves to the herbs; let gushes of rain gladden the earth, let herbs of all forms be born here and there; .....let the herbs become full of delight with the coming of the rainy season.”