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Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin No. 6
Plant Circulation
The simpler plants consisting of single cell or small group of cells! have no circulatory system. Simple diffusion, augmented in certain instances by the process of active transport by air (Ucchvāsavāyu)? suffices to bring in the substances the plant requires. Gūdhaširās4 (Xylem ?) tubes are probably concerned with tansporting water and minerals from the roots up the stem to the leaves, while ahiruyam (phloem) tubes may, probably transport nutrients up as well down the stems for storage and use in the stems and roots, etc. In the Spring and the Summer.6 for example, substances pass from the places of storage to the buds to supply energy for growth.
The circulatory systems of higher plants are simple than those of higher animals and constructed on an entirely different plan, plants have no heart and blood vessels. Transportation of their nutrients from
ekajivakartěke mūlaprathamapatre iti yāvat, prathamapatrakam ca ya saḥ ca yasau bijasya samutsunnāvasthā bhujalakalāpeksā sa ivocyate iti // niyamapradarsanametat ! sesam tu kišalayādisakalam na mülajivaparināmāvirbhāvitāmeva iti avagantavyam //
vide Lokaprakāśa I, p. 361. “Udgacchau prathamānkuraḥ sarvasādhāraņo bhavet / Vardhamano yathayogam syāt pratyeko athavāparah ||
Lokaprakāśa I, 5. 74. 1. Uttarādhyana Sūtra 36. 92.
Paņņavanā, vanaspati (Sukṣma Vanaspati)
Kāyalavapaņņavanā 1. 35, p. 16. 2. Rasaprasarpaņam spașțaṁ satyucchvāse asmadādişu /
Tadabhāve tadabhāvo dsstasca mstakādișu /, Ibid., 5.33. 3. Sūtrakstānga, II. 3.43. 4. Pannavana, Vanaspatikāyajivapannavanā, 54-84.
Jivavicāra 12; Gommațasāra 187 (Jivakāņda). Bhagavati Sūtra, 7.3.275-6. Müle Siktesu Výkşeşu phalādişu rasah sphutah/ Sa cocchvåsamantareņa Kathamurdhvam prasarpati (32) Rasaprasarpaņam spaștam satyucchvāse asmadādişu, Tadabhāve tadabhāvo dfstasca mộtakādişul (33)
-Lokaprakāśa I. 5. 32-33.
6. Ma
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