Vrikshayurveda - Surapala
The treatise Vrikshayurveda indeed is a master piece in itself, and certainly each and every Ayurveda physician, Horticulturists should be proud of possessing one.
The availability of book can be checked with this link ...http://bit.ly/hUED33, whose paper edition is priced at INR 350/-
The Vrkshayurveda also deals in detail regarding the following concepts.,.,
- How to procure a plant
- Construction of pit on earth for sapling
- Nature of soil and it's relation with plants
- Natural form of fertilzers, watering method,
- lay out of the garden based on vastu principles etc.
For better understanding of the books utmost important usage the following foot notes with the authentic verse numbers will be appropriate to view :
48-49. Jambu, champaka, punnaga, nagakesara, tamarind, kapittha, badari, bilva, kumbhakari, priyangu, panasa, amra, madhuka, karamarda, etc. grow from seeds. Tambuli, sinduvara, tagara, etc. grow from stalks.
50. Patala, dadimi, plaksa, karavira, vata, mallika, udumbara kunda, etc. grow from seeds as well as from stalks.
72. Large seeds should be sown singly but smaller ones should be sown in multiples. The seed of naranga should be sown in a slanting position with hand.
76. The stalk should be eighteen angula, not too tender nor too hard. Half of it should be smeared with plenty of cow dung and then (it) should be planted with three-fourth part in the pit and should be sprinkled with water mixed with soft sandy mud.
78. When they are covered with leaves they should be uprooted and transplanted wherever desired in the month of Asadha (beginning of rains).
The other excerpts, stated below, depicts Achaya Suraphala's observation and efficacy in treating the diseased plants, viz.,
191. When watered by the decoction of milk, honey, yastimadhu, and madhuka, trees suffering from pitta type of diseases get cured.
195. The worms accumulated on trees can be treated quickly by smoking the tree with the mixture of white mustard, ramatha, vidanga, vaca, usana, and water mixed with beef, horn of a buffalo, flesh of a pigeon, and the powder of bhillata (bhallataka ?)
197. Creepers eaten away by insects should be sprinkled with water mixed with oil cake. The insects on the leaves can be destroyed by sprinkling the powder of ashes and brick-dust.200-201. The broken trees should be smeared with the paste of the bark of plaksa and udumbara mixed with ghee, honey, wine, and milk and the broken parts should be firmly tied together with the rope of a rice stalk. Fresh soil should then be filled in the basin around the trees, sprinkled immediately with the milk of buffalo and flooded with water. Thus they recover.
239. The white flowers of a tree turn into a golden colour if the tree is watered with the mixture of turmeric powder, kimsuka, cotton seed, manjista, and lodhra.
246. Plantain trees create wonder by producing pomegranate fruits if fed by water mixed with the urine of a hog and ankolha.
253. A tamarind plant is grown into an excellent creeper if fed with water, mixed with the powder of triphala.
The contents of the book, is hereby presented with the images which I tried to create through PPT.
Last but not the least, it may elude one's mind whether the above concepts of horticulture explained in Vrikshayurveda is fruitful or not. It indeed is fruitful one, so was the observation of the members of CIKS.The excerpt of which is given below.
The Center of Indian Knowledge Systems (CIKS) has worked for several years experimented and analysed, that using the ancient techniques mentioned in the treatise of Surapala, the Vrkshayurveda, has the capacity to revitalise the present day agriculture.
In this link certain examples of how they treated the leaf webber disease with the nimba and karanja oil associated with fumigation of daruharidra and vidanga; like wise also explains how they treated the a tree of Custard apple with the help of the fertilzer recipe told in vrkshayurveda and helped the tree grow the fruits, which was not able to do previously. vide link -http://www.compasnet.org/afbeeldingen/Magazines/CM4/cm4_12.PDF
5 comments:
when one has to do large scale farming can any one imagine the quantities of milk, honey, yashtimadu and madhuka to be used. many such products are in very short supply. then how this mehtod could be implemented on a large scale is the question.
does any one one know that these methods of vrikshayruveda are being already implemented in 2004 on a very large scale without =using any of the products mentioned in the book but by just taking an essence of the methods and the methods have proved highly successful.
a panacea for any plant, any discease, any pest has been already developed and being used.
@ Shri.Vaja ji,
Shriman.Valmiki Sreenivas Ayyangarya, it seems have been using the methods of Vrkshayurveda in large scale, in certain tea estates of Arunachal pradesh. Please vide- http://www.agri-history.org/pdf/Organic_tea.pdf
Your view regarding non availability or shortage of certain drugs leading to a specific modification in the process mentioned by the ancient text too, kindles he interest to know about it further. Could you please divulge some more about it for the benefit of the viewers of this blog and myself too.
It will be a honor, to listen read your inputs.
Thanks for your valuable comment regarding the above blog on Vrukshayurveda.
CIKS Chennai under Dr.A.V.Balasubrahmanium is doing promising on the field research on Vrkshayurveda since early 90's.www.ciks.org
www.ciks.org(Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems)does lots of on the field research on Vrkshayurveda under Dr.Vijayalakshi & Dr.A.V.Balasubrahmanium
P. R. VARIAR
Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala Branch, Statue Road, Trivandrum 695 001, India.
Received: October 08, 1984 Accepted revised manuscript January 23, 1985
Vrikshayurveda
(with Malayalam Commentary)
Brhat samhita of Varahamihira (4th Century
A. D.) is considered the first encyclopaedia
in Sanskrit. It deals with an astonishing
variety of subjects of exceptional interest
and value. The 55th chapter of this Book
deals with Vrksayurveda. It also includes
methods of plantations of various trees,
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shrubs, creepers, etc. after culturing soil
with various processess and treatments for
preventing and curing the various ailments
affecting them.
We have a book of Vrksayurveda with a
Malayalam commentary by Mahopadhyaya
K. Padmanabha Pillai Sasthri and with a
scholarly introduction by Suranattu Kunnan
Pillai. The book published in 1946 by
Vidvan K. Vasu Panikkar is now out of
print. The original work is by one
“Sarngadhara”, a contemporary of Raja
“Hamira” of 13th century. The book deals
with various aspects of the subject like 1.
Bhuminirupanam (Selection of soils), 2.
Bijotpatty vidhi (Rules for sowing of seeds),
3. Padapavivaksa, (Methods of
Propagation), 4. Ropanavidhanam (process
of plantation), 5. Nisecanavidhi (Rules for
watering of plants), 6. Posanavidhi (Rules
for the nourishment of plants), 7.
Drumaraksha (Rules for the protection of
trees), 8. Tarucikitsa (treatment of plants), 9.
Nivasasannataru Subhasubhalaksanannal
(Good and evil omens relating to residence
near trees), 10. Tarumahima (Glory of
trees), 11. Upavanakriya (Construction of
gardens) and Vrksayurveda parisista
(Botanical marvels).
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