Agnipurana 281

English (machine translation) 281

Language: English

281.4 — 3 parts
281.13 — 4 parts

281.1

Dhanvantari said: / I shall declare arbori-horticulture. The plakṣa is auspicious to the north; / the banyan to the east, the mango to the south, and the aśvattha in order to the west.

281.2

Thorny trees growing in the southern direction near [the dwelling] / should be in the garden of the dwelling, or [one should sow] flowering sesamum seeds.

281.3

Having worshipped a brāhmaṇa and the moon, one should take and plant the trees / during the five fixed nakṣatras, the windy nakṣatra (Svāti), Hasta, Prajāpati's (Rohiṇī), and Viṣṇu's (Śravaṇa).

281.4

These lunar asterisms and Mūla are praised for planting trees. / One should cause river currents to enter and make lotus ponds.

281.4.p2

1. 'To the left of the house' in manuscript ña.

281.4.p3

2. 'In a lotus pond' does not seem a proper reading. / [page 42]

Hasta, Maghā, Maitra (Anurādhā), Ādya (Aśvinī), Puṣya, Vāsava (Dhaniṣṭhā), / Vāruṇa (Śatabhiṣaj), and the three Uttarās (Uttaraphālgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā, Uttarabhādrapadā) [are auspicious] when undertaking a reservoir of water.

281.6

Having worshipped Varuṇa, Viṣṇu, and Parjanya, one should undertake it: / soapberry, aśoka, punnāga, śirīṣa, together with priyaṅgu,

281.7

aśoka, plantain, rose apple, as well as bakula and pomegranate. / In the hot season, [they should be watered] evening and morning; in the cold season, every other day;

281.8

in the rainy season, when the earth is dry, the planted trees must be watered. / An interval of twenty cubits is best, sixteen is middling,

281.9

and twelve from place to place is the least for trees. / Densely planted trees become fruitless; first, indeed, cleansing with a weapon [is done].

281.10

One should sprinkle with cold water those smeared with viḍaṅga, ghee, and mud. / When fruit is lost, [watering] with horse-gram, black gram, mung bean, barley, and sesamum,

281.11

and sprinkling with ghee and cold milk always brings about fruit and flowers. / Powdered sheep and goat dung, barley powder, and sesamum seeds,

281.12

beef, and water should be kept set aside for seven nights; / this effusion causes an increase of fruits, flowers, and the like in all trees.

281.13

By sprinkling with fish-water, growth of the tree occurs. / Fish and meat mixed with viḍaṅga and rice grains are a fertilizer (dohada) / that removes disease from all trees without exception.

281.13.p1

Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-first chapter in the great Agni Purāṇa, named 'Arbori-horticulture'.

281.13.p2

[page 43]

281.13.p4

Now begins the two hundred and eighty-second chapter.

281.13.p5

Medicines that cure various diseases.

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