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

SCIENCE OF ARBORI-HORTICULTURE IN ANCIENT INDIA 83
grow luxuriously and the branches become graced with flowers and a number
of bees.
166. A Śiśoo tree grows very luxuriantly if one, after fumigating it with
barley, wine, fermented rice water and clarified butter, besmears its trunk with
cakes made up of viḍaṅga and sesamum bathed either in milk or kuṇapa
water.
167-168. All trees without exception always become graced with an
abundance of fruits and leaves and flowers, become immune from diseases
and afford pleasant shades if one applies to them the decoction of Aṅkola
flower mixed with clarified butter and honey, fats of deer and boar added
thereto powders of white mustard, and well watered.
169. One should make a paste of yaṣṭimadhu, Madhuka flowers,
white kuṣṭha and honey, made them into pills and scatter them around the
roots of all trees.
170. Any fruitful tree verily bears very sweet fruits if any experienced
or wise man waters its roots with milk.
XII. HERE BGINS THE SECTION CALLED KUNAPA JALAM—
THE NOURISHING SOLUTION
171-174. One should boil the flesh, fat and marrow of deer, pig, fish,
sheep, goat and rhinoceros in water, and when it is properly boiled one should
put the mixture in an earthen pot and add into the compound milk, powders
of sesamum oil-cakes, māṣa (pulse) boiled in honey, the decoction of pulses,
clarified butter and hot water. There is no fixity as to the amount of any of
these elements; when the said pot is put in a warm place for about a fortnight
the compound becomes what is called Kuṇapa Water which is very healthy
(for plants in general).
XIII. HERE BEGINS THE SECTION CALLED TARUCIKITSA—
THE TREATMEFT OF PLANTS
175. Trees, like men, get diseases through the affections of vāta (wind),
pitta (bile) and kapha (phlegm)—the three pathological humours. One
should diognose the diseases through their symptoms and cure them radically.
176. When a tree is consumed by insects, burnt by fire, broken by
storm, struck by thunderbolt,—one should cut away the affected parts; but
in case of diseases the operation is to be of a different nature.
177. Tall, thin, short, sleepless or partly conscious trees are of windy
humour. They do not bear flowers and fruits.