बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

478 वृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. LIV. Sl. 100-103. Sloka 99.—Thus have I treated of the subject of water-finding in verses composed in the आर्या metre, having gone through the work on the subject written by sage Saraswata. Now I shall explain the same subject in वृत्ता metre as taught by sage Manu. स्निग्धा यतः पादपगुल्मवल्ल्यो निश्छिद्रपत्राश्च ततः शिरास्ति । पद्मक्षुरोशीरकुलाः सगुण्ड्राः काशाः कुशा वा नलिका नलो वा ॥ खर्जूरजम्ब्वर्जुनवेतसाः स्युः क्षीरान्विता वा द्रुमगुल्मवल्ल्यः । छत्रेभनागाः शतपत्रनीपाः स्युर्नक्तमालाश्च ससिन्दुवाराः ॥१०१॥ विभीतको वा मदयन्तिका वा यत्रास्ति तस्मिन् पुरुषत्रयेऽम्भः । स्यात्पर्वतस्योपरि पर्वतोऽन्यस्तत्रापि मूले पुरुषत्रयेऽम्भः ॥१०२॥ Slokas 100-102.—A water vein will be found at a depth of 15 cubits in a place where trees, shrubs and creepers are smooth and densely covered with leaves, where lotus, Gokshura, Usira (வெட்டிவேர்) and Kula or Gundra grass, Kusa, Darbha, Nalika or Nala grows. Where date-trees, Jambu, Arjuna and Vetasa or milky trees, shrubs and creepers or mushrooms, Hastikarna, Nagakesara, lotus, Kadamba, Karaja and Sinduwara trees grow, or where there is Vibhitaka or Madayantika, there is water at 15 cubits. So also in a place where there is one mountain upon another मूले may be interpreted as "at the foot of the lower mountain or upper mountain." या मौञ्जिकैः काशकुशैश्च युक्ता नीला च मृद्यत्र सशर्करा च । तस्यां प्रभूतं सुरसं च तोयं कृष्णाथवा यत्र च रक्तमृद्वा ॥१०३॥ Sloka 103.—There is plenty of sweet water in a place which is full of Munja grass, reeds and holy grass, where the earth is blue and mixed with pebbles, and where the earth is black or red.