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How should plant medicine be collected, according to the Paitamaha quoted in the translation?

भावानुवाद में उद्धृत पैतामह के अनुसार वनस्पति औषधि कैसे ली जानी चाहिए?

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The root of a tree that has gone toward the north is brought after worshipping it, and the leaves, fruits and flowers bent toward the east, south and west are taken.

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Plant medicine taken with compassion, after worship, to treat the twice-born, holy men and munis is said to be a cause only of merit, the slight sin of work done for merit being compared to a particle of poison that cannot spoil an ocean of cool nectar. The rule is said to be for the favour of living beings, so the trees are not to be destroyed from the root.

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