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

78 UPAVANA VINODA
ground one finds a white mouse, and very nearby an anthill in the south a
Vibhītaka tree.
106. If an anthill is there in the west of this particular place one cubit
away, then 20 cubits and 6 digits below the ground a vein of water moving
to the north is sure to be found.
107. Where the white insect, named Viśvambharaka, is to be found
4 cubits below the ground as well as stone of mixed yellow and red colour,
there a vein of water is to be found in the west of the place when the soil
is dug out. But the vein will cease to exist three years after it has been
found out.
108. Where an anthill is to be found between white Kuśa and Kovidāra
trees, there 25 cubits towards the west one can find profusion of water 24 cubits
and 18 digits below the surface.
109. Water is sure to be found below the ground of a soil where 4
cubits below the surface a serpent, soil having the colour of a lotus, and a
kind of stone, named Kuruvindaka, are to be found.
110. Water is verily present 20 cubits and 6 digits beneath the ground
where-ever a tree has a frog one cubit below the soil on which it is situated.
111. If there be the abode of a serpent towards the north of a Madhuka
tree, then 5 cubits away towards the north and west of the place (on which
the tree, is situated) 38 cubits and 6 digits below the ground, water is sure
to be found.
112. The ground 4 cubits below which a king serpent, earth of ashy
colour and stone of the colour of Kulattha are to be found, there a vein of
water flowing to the east is to be found below the ground,—a vein the water
of which is always full of foam.
113. Where there is the abode of a serpent towards south-west of a
Kadamba tree, there towards the east, 3 cubits away, 27 cubits below the
ground profusion of water is to be found.
114. Where there is to the west, 6 cubits away from the place (on
which the tree is located) a palmyra, or a cocoanut tree is surrounded by
anthills, 18 cubits beneath the ground a vein of water flowing to the west is
sure to be found.
115. Where to the left of a Aśmantaka tree, either a Vadari tree or
the abode of a serpent is to be found, there 6 cubits away towards the west
15 cubits and 18 digits below the ground water is to be found.
116. Where 4 cubits below the soil a tortoise, stone of ashy colour,
and soil mixed with sand are to be found, there beneath the ground a vein
of water flowing to the south is to be found too, and a little to the north east
thereof another vein of water is to be found.
117. Where in a waterless (dreary) tract signs of watery region are