Botany in Sanskrit Literature

Abstract

The word oshadhi has been widely used in Sanskrit literature, in which all kinds of trees come to vegetation. Medicines mainly have two distinctions - vegetative and medicinal. Botany is the word for trees and medicine is the word for small plants. In the Rig Veda two distinctions of vegetation are made - vegetation and vegetation. Vegetation for large trees and botanical terms for relatively small trees. Similarly, there are two distinctions of Oushadhi as well - Oushadhi and Virudha. Those occurring in the form of small plants, those in the form of oshadhi and lata gulmadi, have been called Virudh. The article presented sheds light on the botany inherent in Sanskrit poetry.