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

filled with the ichor is carefully kept in the core of its
root.
273. Payasya, arjuna, and tarquari get destroyed if
profusely besmeared with salt water and if scratched
by the bone of a hog all over the skin.
274. The coconut tree is destroyed if fed by water used
for cleaning rice. Cotton tree immediately perishes if
fed by water treated with the leaves of neem tree.
275. A stick of the hingu tree kept at the root of the
plantain tree destroys it; the trees of ash gourd and the
cucumber and the like perish if profusely smoked with
the bones of crabs.
276. A tree drops away its fruits and flowers if watered
by the decoction of kulattha. Kimsuka, arjuna, and tarquari
(drop away their fruits and flowers) by feeding with
salt or by kindling.
277. There is no wonder if a seed separated from a
naturally ripened fruit is treated with the mixture of
the oil of ankolha and of nara (arjuna ?), and sown in a
heap of soil sprinkled with coconut water (gale water
?), grows at once.
278. A seed dipped several times in the oil of ankolha
and the fat of a pig and then dried up and sown in a
good quality soil sprinkled with coconut water (gale
water ?) grows instantly without fail.
279. A seed cultured hundred times with the oil of
slesmata sown and watered with coconut water (gale
water ?) sprouts immediately.
280. A pomegranate seed sprinkled several times with
the blood of a cock and dried up in the sun and then
sown, immediately bears fruits if watered and smoked
with human flesh and marrow.
281. If a seed is cultured in the oil of ankolha, fish,
Gangetic porpoise, human being, hog, and crocodile;
and then dried up, sown in a good soil and nourished
by coconut water (gale water ?), the tree thereof
produces flowers and fruits at once.
282. If a ripe madhukarkata is kept in an earthen jar and
left (buried) underground and nourished by water of
oil cake and flesh, it grows to the size of a jar.
283. The pomegranate tree transplanted seven times
bears fruits as big as coconut if nourished with water
containing triphala, melted butter, and marrow of a hog.
284. The mulaka, if planted in a pit filled with earth of
good quality, burnt in the fire made of the bones of cow,
hog, and dry cow dung, grows instantly.
285–286. If thick stems of cucumber and ash gourd
plants are smeared with honey and melted butter, then
tied together with straw rope and then covered with
cow dung they become one. Later, if the stem is cut
keeping the order of the root and the tip, trapusa
(cucumber) too, bears fruits of ash gourd size.
287–288. A small hole should be bored in a tender ash
gourd; and seed of the neem tree, profusely smeared
with honey and melted butter should be dropped in
through the hole. After the gourd is fully ripe the seed
should be carefully extracted and sown. It then produces
a plant which produces ample wealth in the form of
brinjals of huge size.
289. A seed of utpala should be rubbed with the mixture
of urine and dried dung of a she-buffalo for seven days
and after sowing it in rich soil should be nourished with
coconut water (gale water ?) (karakajala). It then grows
into a karavira.
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