Sambodhi 2018 Vol 41

Author(s): J B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Dhananjay Vasudeo Dwivedi
SAMBODHI
शस्यक्षयः प्रतिपदि द्वादश्यां बधबन्धनम् ।
बहुविघ्नकरी षष्ठी कुहूः कर्षकनाशिनी ॥6 Commencing plowing on the eighth day of the month kills the bullocks; on the ninth day it causes destruction of the crops. Commencing on the fourth day, leads to loss caused by insects and on the fourteenth day it leads to the master's death -
हन्त्यष्टमी बलीवर्दानवमी शस्यघातिनी ।
चतुर्थी कीटजननी पति हन्ति चतुर्दशी ॥7 Propagation Of Plants by Cutting (Kāņdāropya) and Grafting (Skandhaja) -
Various Sanskrit texts have described the fact that plants were propagated in ancient India by cutting and grafting. According to the Brhatsamhitā, grafting may be done in respect of the jack tree, Aśoka, Plantain, Eugenia, Lemon, pomegranate, grape, Pālīvata, Mātulinga and jasmine creeper by smearing a branch with cow-dung and transplanting it on the branch of another; or it may be done by cutting off the trunk of a tree and transplanting it like a wedge on the trunk of another tree. Here the part when the junction is affected must be covered with coating of mud
पनसाशोककदलीजम्बूलकुचदाडिमाः ।। द्राक्षापालीवताश्चैव बीजपूरातिमुक्तकाः ॥ एते द्रुमाः काण्डरोप्या गोमयेन प्रलोपिताः ।
मूलोच्छेदेऽथवा स्कन्धे रोपणीयाः परं ततः । The grafting should be done in sisira season for those plants which have not yet got branches; in the Hemanta season for those that have grown branches; and in rainy season for those that have large branches. The particular direction of the tree that is cut off should be kept up in grafting also
अजातशाखान् शिशिरे जातशाखान् हिमागमे ।
वर्षागमे च सुस्कन्धान् यथादिक्स्थान्नरोपयेत् ॥ Trees can be taken to other countries and there grafted on others, if they are smeared from root to the stem with ghee, andropogon, sesamum, honey, Vidanga, milk and cow-dung
घृतोशीरतिलक्षौद्रविडङ्गक्षीरगोमयैः । आमूलस्कन्धलिप्तानां सङ्कामणविरोपणम् ॥