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

SCIENCE OF ARBORI-HORTICULTURE IN ANCIENT INDIA 87
214. A tree becomes devoid of fruits and flowers if sprinkled over with
the decoction made up of kulattha, or that made up of Palāśa, Arjuna and
Tarkāri together with salt.
215. If bulbs are wrapped with fibres of water-lily, and their roots bes-
meared with honey and clarified butter variously coloured, and then sown, the
flowers that grow out of them correspond to the colour of the clarified butter
and honey.
216. If the seeds of water-lily are rubbed with the stools and urine of
buffalo, dried for seven days and sown, out of them sprout Karavīra trees.
217. If the seeds of gourd, brinjal, patola and such other plants be
treated with fat and then sown in purified (prepared) ground, and water be
sprinkled over them, the fruits that grow out of them become big and seedless.
218. If one digs a deep pit and besmears the bottom of it with cowdung
and sow in it the seeds of Brinjal rubbed with honey and ghee, dried in the
sun and bathed in the juice of green gourd, the plants that grow out of them
when developed bear abundant fruits.
219. If earth (soil) and cowdung and ghee compounded together be
applied to the root of a gourd creeper coming out of the hole of a Mandār
tree, it always bears fruits.
220. If Castor seeds be bathed in the fat and blood of pigs and treated in
Aṅkola oil and sown, Kārañji fruits grow out of them, which is really a
wonder.
221. If one thrusts a rod in the stool of ass and horse and then heat
it on fire, and then pierce it slantingly into the trunk of a plantain tree, the
fruits that tree will produce, will be as big as the trunk of an elephant.
222. If one sprinkles the infusion of the blood and fat of boar and
Aṅkola oil over a plantain tree it bears pomegranate fruits.
223. When a plantain tree is sprinkled over with the flesh, fat and blood
of man, and the powders of elephant's tusks dissolved in water it produces
mango fruits.
224-225. If one applies to the root of a mango tree broth of human
flesh and Aṅkola oil mixed with goat's milk and sesamum paste, it always
bears fruits abunduntly like vines, which is certainly a wonderful thing.
226. If mango seeds be repeatedly treated in the blood of hare and
tortoise, and if milk be sprinkled over the trees that grow out of them, they
always bear fruits.
227. If one applies to the Nimba tree, which is naturally of bitter juice,
the paste made up of viḍaṅga, yaṣṭimadhu, molasses and milk, and
sprinkle it with water and milk, it produces sweet fruits.
228. Whatever seeds one sows after having treated them with
human flesh and Aṅkola oil and with some earth in one's hand at the