Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c7.4

c7.4

Our study tends to prove that the Science of Plants and Plant-life in India is one of the earliest, if not the earliest one. With it developed such collateral sciences as those of Medicine and Agriculture. We know a good deal more of the Science of Medicine than of the Science of Agriculture, its sister, and of the Science of Plant and Plant-life, its mother. Our survey, however, shows that all these shared the same fate of a brilliant beginning, a marked progress to a certain stage, and a tragic stagnation.