Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.96

c5.s5.96

“To ensure inflorescence, etc. (कुसुमयुक्तमेव) the seed before being sown should be treated as follows:—The seeds should be taken up in the palm greased with ghee and thrown into milk; on the day following the seeds should be taken out of the milk with greased fingers and the mass separated into single seeds. This process is to be repeated on 10 successive days. Then the seeds are to be carefully rubbed with cow-dung, and afterwards steamed in a vessel containing the flesh of hogs or deer. Then the seeds are to be sown with the flesh, with the fat of the hogs added in a soil previously prepared by being sown with sesame and dug up or trodden down"—and then to be sprinkled daily with water mixed with *kshīra* (क्षीर) 19 & 20.