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

80 UPAVANA VINODA
tree, there even in absence of an anthill 3 cubits away in the west and 94½
cubits below the ground water is to be found.
133. The ground where first a serpent is to be found 2 cubits and
6 digits below, then soil of white colour and then stone of the same colour,
there in the north thereof a vein of water flowing to the south is to be found.
134. If a Karīra plant is to be found beneath a Vadarī tree, then 3 cubits
away to the west, 81 cubits below the ground a vein of water flowing to
north-east is to be found—a vein which is full of a profusion of water.
135. The desert where Kakuva and Karīra, or Kakuva and Vilva, trees
are seen very near to one another, there in the west 3 cubits away, 94½ cubits
below water is to be found,
136. If over an anthill grasses of yellow colour and Dūrvā are to be
found, and one digs a well between the two then 189 cubits below the
ground water is to be found.
137. Where an anthill is to be found to the north of a Śami tree
with knots (tubercles) all over its body, there 5 cubits away to the west,
225 curbits below the ground water is sure to be found.
138-139. Jambū, Trivṛtā, Śyāmā, Śiśumārī, Śārivā, Śivā, Dūrvā :
all these gulmas ; or such trees as Vārāhî, Jyotiṣmatī, Garuḍavegā, Śūkarikā
Māṣalatā, Vyāghrapadā,—if any of these is to be found on stony ground,
then 3 cubits north of the anthill adjacent thereto, 13½ cubits below the ground
water is to be found.
140. The above rule (as laid down in 138-139,) applies to mountainous
regions of Anūpa country, but in accordance with the spirit of this formula
even in the mountainous grounds of Jāṅgala region water is to be found 30½
cubits below the surface, and in the case of a desert 36 cubits below.
141. Where the ground is uniformly even and is devoid of
grasses, trees, anthills and shrubs, there if a change is noticed in any of
these, water is sure to be found below the surface.
142. It is good to begin digging a well when the moon is in any of
the constellation in the Zodiac : Hastā, Maghā, Anurādhā, Puṣyā, Dhaniṣṭhā,
Uttaraphālgunī, Uttarāṣāḍā, Uttarabhādrapada, Rohiṇī and Śatabhiṣā.
143. The presence of a well in the south-east of a house or a village
is productive of perpetual fear, and causes the conflagration of houses, as if
by a human agent.
144. A well in the south-west of a house or a village means loss of
property to the inhabitants ; one in north-west causes loss of wives, and
one in the north-east causes fear. The digging of a well anywhere else is
propitious.
145. The water below the surface of the ground which is full of Kāśa
and Kuśa grass, or where the earth is of blue colour, or full of fine gravels,