Plants
object · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
plants · النبات · al-nabāt · herbs · kūlbajā · nabāt · the Book of Plants · the plants · things that have souls and no sensation · كتاب النبات
spoken of as
1 expressionKūlbajā“plants”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
For you are called the Vaiśvadevī, the kṛtyā enveloped in kūlbajā plants, burning and consuming utterly — the thunderbolt of the brahman.
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Vegetable life, named as the bearer of the vegetative soul in the classification of bodily souls.
it is the vegetative soul that is in plants and the animal soul that is in animals;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A plant named as enveloping the curse-power kṛtyā.
For you are called the Vaiśvadevī, the kṛtyā enveloped in kūlbajā plants, burning and consuming utterly — the thunderbolt of the brahman.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Ensouled things without sensation, treated as one division of the natural sciences and the subject of Aristotle's Book of Plants.
and he made a book on what is proper, in the earth, to that which has a soul and has no senses, and named it the Book of Plants;
and of what is proper to the things that have souls, some is proper to those possessing sensation and some to what has no sensation.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Plants, named as a class of living things whose anatomy, studied scientifically, displays the attention to fine detail and regard for benefits that the argument takes as proof of divine knowledge.
And that is because of the masterly construction (*iḥkām*) and the ordering that you see, the attention to fine detail and the regard for benefits, as is witnessed in the universals of the world, and as you learn when you look into the science of the anatomy of animals and of plants and the strata of the earth, and much else whose exposition would run long;
Rigveda
Healing herbs/plants invoked for their curative power and elsewhere associated with Agni's birth.
The plants that were born of old, three ages before the gods — I shall meditate upon the hundred and seven abodes of those tawny ones.
At his birth the gods — earth, sky, waters — and the plants rejoiced in his friendship.
Him — Agni — the plants bore as their timely embryo;