Naveen Patnaik is an articulated writer, highly successful Chief Minister and his novels are known for their historical and Ayurveda themes.Naveen’s ‘The Garden of Life’:An Introduction to the Healing plants of India’ is an excellent text which has used ancient mythology and spirituality for the cure of numerous sickness and diseases. The present paper is an attempt to look into the source of texts for the various references that Patnaik incorporates,in order to analyze the broad range of epistemological discourses that form the basic of his introductory study. The attempt is to trace a genealogy for these references which range from Charaka’s treatise on medicine, the Upanishad, the Mahabharata, Literary works to modern 20thcentury research in medicine.