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

74 UPAVANA VINODA
treated with banana paste) down in the ground lengthwise. Then for a
long number of days one should go on sprinkling water upon it little by little.
62. Then, sprouts having bluish and reddish appearance like the fresh
Tamāla tree, will sprout out of that rope; and then when by degrees
branches, leaves and roots will become visibly manifest, one should plant
these sprouts elsewhere and sprinkle water upon them.
63. Seeds (of trees and other garden plants) should be sown during the
months of Āṣāḍha and Śrāvaṇa; and some opine that they may be sown
in any season of the year, except the summer.
64. One should lay out the trees in the garden so as to look like an altar,
a nandyāvarta, a swastika, a caturasra, a sarvatobhadra, a bīthi (avenue
lined with trees), a nikuñja (grove—bower), and in clusters (here and there).
65. One should plant trees at an interval of 10 cubits in the lower level
of the garden, and at 20 cubits in the higher and at 16 cubits in the middle;
but if the surface of the garden be plane one should plant grass-like plants at
an interval of 2 cubits, trees at 4 and gulmas at 3 cubits apart.
66. Trees if thickly sown are hindered in their growth and if sown very
sparsely they are in danger of falling down even in consequence of mild
winds; hence for lean plants, in the laying out a garden, planting after the
method described above is wise.
67. The trees, the fruits and flowers whereof are not enjoyable by men,
the upper parts whereof drop off, which produce fruits without producing
flowers, are regarded as inauspicious in the Śāstras : Jackfruit tree is an
example.
68. Mātuluṅga, Rajanī, thorny plants, Kiṁśuka, Girikarṇikā, Asitā,
Tintiḍī, Viphalākṣa, Nīlikā, Kovidāra,—are productive of danger.
69. A fruitful tree, Aśoka, Punnāga, Śirīṣa, Nimba and Champaka—are
conducive to welfare and should be planted before all. Do well to know
that Bhallātaka is productive of diseases.
70. One should plant Karamardda and Bamboo in the east of a garden,
Pārāvata in the south, Vadarī and Kapittha in the north, and Dhātrī in the
west. One should plant trees with an eye to the fact that there is room
for the spread of their roots and one must see that the leaves of each other
do not touch.
VII. HERE BEGINS THE SECTION CALLED NISHECHANA-
VIDHI—THE-RULES FOR WATERING OF PLANTS
71. One should water the newly planted trees both in the morning and
evening, and should systematically protect them against cold and strong
wind.