Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.68

c5.s5.68

“Grafts should be smeared with cowdung. For transplanting (अन्यदेशे नीत्वा रोपयेदित्यर्थः) the plants should be smeared from root to the top (आमूलस्कम्भलिप्तानां) with ghee (clarified butter), sesame oil, the honey of the Khudra variety of the bee of the Ushira (Andropogon Laniger or Andropogon Citrarum), the *Viḍanga* (Embelica ribes) milk and cowdung.” 7