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. In our scriptures, there were. references to .airoplanes ( vimanas ) flying in the air. When these things were read by, us, we used to say that all those things were humbug and idle talks. But when actually the airoplanes were seen flying we came to know thät the statements in our scriptures were entirely true: : :
When Shri. Jagdish Chandra Bose proved to the Western world with the help of scientific apparatus that trees, plants, creepers have life, and experience pleasure, pain, expansion or contraction, the outside world began to believe that there was life in the vegetable kingdom. But in the old manuscripts of the Jain Shastras, all these things had been .explained in full.'
· Years before Shri. Jagdish Chandra Bose speaking to an audience in Germany had stated "That what I have proved before you today viz that vegetable has life, is not new, I am only -stating what our great men of the past the Jain Acharyas had stated before". and in support of it he had cited Acharanga sutra and Jivabhigamasutra (the two scriptures of the Jaina )...
That there was life in water, that'vegetables
