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

sesame, barley, and black gram and then smoked well
with the turmeric powder.
254-258. A seed of the kapittha should be cultured
hundred times with milk boiled along with roots of
dhatri, vaca, abhaya, asphota, asmapa, vetasa, simsapa,
suryavalli, atimukta, and palasini for over a month and
then should be sown in a pit keeping in water mixed
with ghee, honey, and ashes of cow dung, vidanga,
sesame, and flesh of the boar. Thereafter, the pit should
be filled with good quality soil measuring four fingers
in thickness and then it should be watered with the
decoction of barley, black gram, sesame, honey, fish, and
flesh. The seed then grows into a creeper, without fail.
259-260. A seed of any variety, freely rubbed with the
bark of mango creeper, jasmine, dhataki, and madhavi
mixed with the milk of a she-goat and then sown in a
pit, filled with soil dug up from around the roots of trees
belonging to different species and thereafter sufficiently
sprinkled with the powder of sesame and barley, and
(the seed so sown) watered with curd and milk grows
into the respective creeper.
261. If a tree is planted and grown faithfully with efforts
by a person, in a pit as deep as man's height and
properly covered from inside with new bricks it
blossoms even in a dwarf condition.
262-263. A plant which is not too tender should be cut
at its stem and then slightly burnt. Thereafter, it should
be smeared with the mixture of ghee, cow dung,
mineral salt, honey, and flesh. A nail should then be
slantingly driven in the root. The plant then should be
watered with milk-water. It then, produces beautiful
branches and without fail produces fruits even in a
dwarf state.

264. A plant grown in a pit supported with four pillars
     erected close to the root, carefully watered with milk
     grows into a dwarf variety.
265. If bulbs of various types of lotuses are uprooted,
     tied together firmly with threads, smeared with melted
     butter and honey and then planted, they produce those
     respective lotuses in bunches (on a single creeper).
266. Similarly several wonders of transformation can
     be worked out by tying together the stems of karavira
     and those of various species of pomegranate.
267. The ripening of fruits of a tree can be delayed by
     one year by piercing their roots with the long bones of
     monkey's legs dipped in the ichor of intoxicated
     elephant.
268. Ripening of fruits on a particular branch of a tree
     can be stopped by covering that branch firmly by the
     skin of the hunch of a bull that is just then killed.
269. The fruits on a particular branch of a tree do not
     ripen if it is covered seven times with the skin from the
     dewlap of a black bull, killed for the purpose.
270. A plantain tree with its root pierced with a
     golden rod heated in fire of dust of ivory, turns into a
     creeper producing fruits for a long time (or fruits of large
     size).
271. The plantain creeper produces wealth in the form
     of plantains as big as elephant's teeth if their roots are
     pierced with an iron needle which is heated in the fire
     made of dry cow dung and bones of pig, elephant, and
     horse.
272. The plantain tree definitely produces fruits as long
     as the pestle if the hollow tooth of a boar or a monkey,

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