वृक्षायुर्वेद (सुरपाल - प्राचीन भारतीय पादप-विज्ञान, कृषि एवं वृक्ष-चिकित्सा सटीक)

and grape, crystalline sugar, and barley (and then
watered with the same ?).
239. The white flowers of a tree turn into a golden
color if the tree is watered with the mixture of
turmeric powder, kimsuka, cotton seed, manjista, and
lodhra.
240. The white flowers of a tree turn into a golden color
if it is smeared at the roots with the mixture of manjista,
darada, milk, kanksi (kind of fragrant earth), and flesh of
a pigeon.
241. Trees watered continuously with the liquid of
triphala, barley, mango seed, and indigo; and also filled
at the root with the powder of the same mixture produce
fruits resembling collyrium (see anjana).
242. Trees treated with water and paste containing the
mixture of barley, kimsuka, manjista, turmeric, and
sesame and also smeared with the same paste bear red
fruits.
243. Trees watered and smeared at roots with the
mixture of the bark of the salmali tree, turmeric, indigo,
triphala, kusta, and liquor bear fruits having the shades
of a parrot.
244. Trees watered after being sprinkled at the root with
the mixture of indigo, turmeric, lodhra, vara (triphala),
sesame, asana, kasisa and yasti—all powdered together—
produce fruits of golden color.
245. Bakula trees blossom forth producing lots of
champaka flowers if continuously fed with flesh water
after filling the bottom with plenty of mud mixed with
kalaaya and the skin of a python or snake.
(Some words are unintelligible.)
246. Plantain trees create wonder by producing
pomegranate fruits if fed by water mixed with the urine
of a hog and ankolha.
(A word is unintelligible.)
247. A castor tree produced from a seed cultured by
the marrow of a boar, treated further by the process in
the previous verse, produces karavella fruits.
248. Fragrance of the blossom can be changed by filling
(the base near) the roots of the trees with the earth
scented with the desired fragrance and then fed with
water mixed with jalada, mura, nata, valaka, and patraka.
249. All types of flowering plants produce excellent
fragrance if earth strongly scented by their own flowers
is filled around the base (of the trees) and then fed with
water mixed with musta, mura, nata leaves, and wine.
250. The same treatment used in the evening at their
blossoming time along with fat, milk, blood, and kusta
intensifies the natural fragrance of the blossoms of
punnaga, naga, bakula, etc.
251. A big and strong mud pot should be filled with
the mixture of mud and plenty of beef; and the karavira
plant should be grown there with effort by watering
profusely with cow dung and good quality beef.
252. The above stated plant of karavira should then be
shifted to a pit, previously prepared by filling with cow
bones, well-burnt ashes and then wetted by water mixed
with beef. Thereafter, the plant should be fed with plenty
of water mixed with beef. So treated, it is transformed
into a creeper to blossom profusely and perennially.
253. A tamarind plant is grown into an excellent creeper
if fed with water, mixed with the powder of triphala,
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