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

82 UPAVANA VINODA
154. If one fills the trenches around a Nāgakeśara or Champaka tree
with the decoction made up of priyaṅgu, gujña fruit, nimba, pippalī, vachā,
haridrā, tila and sarṣapa—all taken in equal parts together with clarified butter
and broth of Aśvakarṇa (bark) they are sure to grow luxuriantly.
155. If one waters the roots of vines with the compound liquid made up
of stools of fowls, (flesh and fish), straw and husks of paddy, it bears fruit and
flowers and grows ; and if one compounds 6 maunds and 10 seers of
Gāruḍī creepers with leaves and besmears the trunk of a jackfruit tree from
top to foot with it and waters the roots of the said tree with the broth of
vachā,—it bears fruits all over its body from head to foot.
156. If a Kapittha or Vilva tree be watered with clarified butter, milk
and honey, it bears fruits which are sweet to the taste, full of fleshy substance
containing scanty number of seeds.
157. A Madhuka tree puts on a beautiful and dignified appearance like
a worshipable being when it is watered with the compound made up of the
broth of the roots and leaves of Kośātakī, Pippalā, kuṇapa water, and powdered
resin.
158. A plum tree bears fruits which are as sweet as sugar when its
roots are developed through being watered with the decoction of tila and
yaṣṭīmadhu and with kuṇapa water.
159. A Vījapūra tree bears fruits again and again when the compound
substance consisting of the stools of goat, sheep, pig, etc., viḍaṅga and the
stools of men, is applied to the roots and then these roots are watered
with the urine of horses and sheep.
160. All creepers are bent down under the weight of their fruits when
their roots are pierced with the stings of scorpion and fumigated with clarified
butter and watered with the fats of mice and pig.
161. A Ketakī tree if watered with the urine of cows and kuṇapa water
in summer, bears fragrant flowers and sharp thorny leaves in the rainy
season.
162. One should apply to the roots of all trees, in profusion, soil scented
by fragrant flowers.
163. Any flowering tree bears fragrant flowers in course of a month
if it be watered with the liquid compound of the powders of kuṣṭha, patra,
murā, mustā, tagara and uśīra.
164. If one applies to the roots of a lotus plant which is barren, the
compounded dust of kulattha and the tusks of elephants, it is sure to be
graced with sweet lotuses every day.
165. If one applies to the roots white mustard, plantain leaf, safari fish,
stools of pig and cat in equal shares mixed with clarified butter, besmears the
trunks and fumigate them therewith, they (trees) become free of all diseases.