Charak Samhita

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एवं व्यवस्यन्त्यतीतं बीजात् फलमनागतम्| दृष्ट्वा बीजात् फलं जातमिहैव सदृशं बुधाः ||२२||

sanskrit

By looking at a seed, one can infer about the species or genus of the plant or tree and the kind of fruits it would bear. This inference is drawn on the basis of repeated, empirical observation of the plant’s (or tree’s) lifecycle and is an example of inferring (or predicting) the future.

english translation

evaM vyavasyantyatItaM bIjAt phalamanAgatam| dRSTvA bIjAt phalaM jAtamihaiva sadRzaM budhAH ||22||

hk transliteration