Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c7.5

c7.5

The field is vast, our survey is brief but enough, we think, to hold out the prospects of a rich harvest that can be reaped by the modern inquirer. The value of the work is primarily historical no doubt, enabling one, as it does, to be acquainted with the circumstances and the difficulties through which human knowledge and art grew up, but its value also consists in discovering different systems of nomenclature and classification, suggestive of different trends of human thought and national culture.