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

SCIENCE OF ARBORI-HORTICULTURE IN ANCIENT INDIA 85
with milk and water,—when applied to the roots of (such a tree, it is eased
and becomes normal.
189. The trees which get at dotage through repeated production
of fruits and flowers, when bathed (treated) in kuṇapa water and milk again
and again, do surely bear fruit.
190. When the branches of a tree become dry owing to excess or want
of application of water, one should boil viḍaṅga, clarified butter and milk
together, and sprinkle the tree with the mixture for a week.
191. When a tree suffers from incapacity to digest water, it is
alway pale, devoid of leaves, full of ants and the smell of fish, and in places
devoid of barks. The following treatment has to be adopted in this case :
192-193. One should strike at the root of the tree suffering from
indigestion to draw the poisonous sap out of the trunk, apply to the affected
place a paste of honey, viḍaṅga powder and sesamum and cover it with
earth and sprinkle it with water and milk. The atrophy (sosha) of a tree is
radically cured if it be besmeared with the said paste after it has been sprink-
led with sugar and sesamum mixed with milk and water and then fumigated.
194. Exudation of trees is stopped if one applies to it the barks of
Priyaṅgū, Vara Karkārī, Vetasa and Arjuna pasted with and boiled in milk.
XIV. HERE BEGINS THE SECTION CALLED VICHITRA KARANAM—
THE BOTANICAL MARVELS
195. The subject matter of the Vṛkṣāyurveda is not to be found any-
where outside the scriptures. Let us here deal with some botanical marvels.
196. If one applies to the root of a tree bearing scentless flowers, earth
(soil) scented (through association) with fragrant flowers, and then sprinkle it
with decoction of Dhava and Khadira barks, and besmears it with sandal
dusts and then fumigates it with clarified butter and frankincense, it bears very
fragrant flowers.
197. When one applies barley, sesamum, Niśā and powdered bark
of Palāśa tree to the root of a cotton tree, and sprinkles it with the decoction
made up of those things it yields fibres, as red as burning fire.
198. If barks of Śālmalī, turmeric, indigo, triphalā (three fruits), kuṣṭha
and rock salt be powdered and mixed with wine, and be applied to the
roots of a cotton tree, it yields fibres as yellow as the feather of a Śuka bird.
199. If mañjiṣṭhā, tila, yava, pītasāra, leaves of Jīvantī, powdered
Manaḥśilā (a kind of red mineral) be pasted together in the milk either of
she-goat, cow or of sheep, and applied to the root of a cotton tree it produces
fibres as blue as the sky.