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

SCIENCE OF ARBORI-HORTICULTURE IN ANCIENT INDIA 79
found, and where Vīraṇa and Dūrvā are seen, there 4½ cubits below the
ground water is to be found too.
118-119. If wet anthill is to be found beneath any of these trees :
Tilaka, Āmrātaka, Varuṇaka, Bhallātaka, Vilva, Tinduka Aṅkola, Pindīra,
Śirīṣa, Añjana, Paruṣaka, Vañjula, Ativalā—then to the north thereof 3 cubits
away 20 cubits and 6 digits below the ground there is water.
120. Where in the midst of a grassless ground a grassful spot is to be
found, and vice versa, there is water below the surface.
121. If a thorny tree is to be found in the midst of a number of trees
without thorns, then if one digs the ground there 3 cubits away to the west,
one is sure to find water or riches 15 cubits below the soil.
122. If the branches of a tree are bent down or of yellow colour, then 13
and half cubits below the soil, under the top part of the branches water is
sure to be found.
123. If earth and stone of yellow colour are to be found 18 cubits beneath
the soil, lying 3 cubits away to the east of a tree which has developed signs
of disease in its fruits and flowers---there water is to be found beneath its
surface.
124. If a Kaṇṭakārī plant with flowers of white colour is found thornless,
then 2 cubits 6 digits beneath the soil, or 13 cubits beneath thereof, water is to
be found.
135. If in a waterless ground a date tree with 2 heads is to be found,
then to the west of the ground, 13 cubits beneath the surface water is to be
found.
126. If a Karṇikāra tree with white flowers, or a Palāśa tree is to be found,
then to the north of the ground on which these are located, 15 cubits beneath
the soil there is water.
127. The ground which is always warm, or out of which smoke seems
to come out, 9 cubits beneath thereof a vein of water full of strong current is
to be found.
128. The ground where the corn becomes of yellow colour while
unripe and dies away, there 9 cubits beneath the soil a strong vein of water
is to be found.
129-130. Then we are describing the signs of vein of water in the
desert : If an anthill of yellowish colour is to be found in the north-east of
a desert then in the west thereof 20 and half cubits below the ground a strong
vein of water flowing to the west, which is like a hot spring, is to be found.
131. The soil where first a frog and then earth of yellow colour, and
then 4½ cubits below heat is felt, there beneath the ground water is sure to
be found,
132. The ground where a Vadarī tree is found adjacent to a Rohita