उपवनविनोद (आचार्य शार्ङ्गधर - वृक्षायुर्वेद, भू-जल संधान एवं उद्यान-विज्ञान सटीक)

24 UPAVANA VINODA
interval of 4 cubits 16 digits, and at a depth of 40 puruṣas, where a stone will
be found, under which the vein runs."
81. "At a distance of 5 cubits in a westerly direction from the spot where
a knotty Samî tree is seen having an anthill on its northern side, there will be
water at 50 puruṣas."
82. "If the middlemost one of the 5 anthills stationed at one place, be
white, it indicates a vein at 55 puruṣas."
83. "Where a Śamî tree has a Butea near it, water is on the west side at
60 puruṣas. First (you will discover below the surface) a snake at half a
puruṣa, afterwards yellow clay mixed with sand."
84. "One cubit eastward of a spot where a white Andersonia is surrounded
by an anthill, will be water at 70 puruṣas."
85. "Where a white Śamî shows a great many thorns there is water in a
southerly direction at 75 puruṣas, while a snake will come to sight at half a
puruṣa."
86. "The existence of water in a woody tract of land may not be deter-
mined on such indications as apply to a desert only. The number of puruṣas
which has been given in stanza 6, sqq., has to be doubled in the cases of
a desert."
87-89. "A roseapple tree and the plants Tribṛtā, Mūrvā, Siśumārī,
Sarivā, Śivā, Śyāma, and such Vîrudhas as Vārāhī, Jyotiṣmatī, Garuḍavegā,
Sūkarika, Māsaparṇī, Vyāghrapadā growing by a snake's abode, denote water
to be near the anthill 3 cubits off to the south at 3 puruṣas. The latter
number applies to a watery country, but for a woody tract, the depth is to be
fixed at 5 puruṣas, and for a desert at 7 puruṣas, if the indications be the
same."
90. "Where some ground, otherwise uniform and devoid of grass, trees,
anthills or shrubs, contains a piece of unusual appearance, there is
water."
91. "And where the earth is smooth, low, sandy or resounding there is
water at 4½ or 5 puruṣas."
92. "To the south of smooth trees there will be water at 4 puruṣas.
The same may be said should a tree in the midst of a thick wood show
uncommon symptoms."
93. "Where the soil slopes downwards, there is water at 1½ puruṣa in
the case of a woody or watery tract of country; where insects are frequent
without having their abode in that place, there too is water."
94. "An isolated cold spot in a warm ground denotes cold water; a
single warm spot in a cold ground, warm water at 3½ puruṣas; and at 4
cubits' distance if a rainbow, fish or anthill be conspicuous."
95. "If in a row of anthills one is prominent over the rest, there is water