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Botanical Contents in Prākrta Canons : 447
Table 2 : Characteristics of General and Individual Bodied
Plants.
General bodied plants Individual bodied plants 1. They go asunder together. Properties 1-5 are individua
lised. 2. They take the form together. 3. They take the food together. 4. They inhale/exhale together. 5. They have common holdings. 6. They have a common elem- They have seperated element
ent of livingness like hot of livingness in different parts iron/gold mass.
behaving as one like the adhesively stuck mustard or
sweet seasame cakes. 7. The veins, joints, knots of Veins, joints, knots etc. are
the plants are not clearly clearly visible.
visible. 8. When cut, it is divided in When cut, it is divided in two two equal parts.
unequal parts/piths. 9. When cut, no threads are When cut, threads are seen in seen in inner parts.
inner parts. 10. They grow again even when It may not grow again
cut and dried under favour- when cut and dried under able conditions.
favourable conditions. 11. Their bark is thicker than their bark is thinner than inner part.
inner part. 12. Individual plants are deve
loped out of these plants. 13. Generally flowers are gene- Generally, other parts except ral bodied.
flowers are individual bodied. 14. Their number is infinite. Their number is innumerable.
Physically, general bodied plants have hidden veins, joints and knots. They are equally divisible and threadless when divided. They are soft and they can grow even when cut. These
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