Essay name: Vrikshayurveda (and environmental philosophy)
Author:
Beenapani Mishra
Affiliation: Utkal University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay studies the Environmental Philosophy in the Vrikshayurveda Texts including English translation of extracts. This study researches topics such as “Environmental Values� reflected in various Sanskrit Texts. Vrksayurveda represents the ancient Indian science of Horticulture.
Chapter 6 - Aesthetic Value behind the arrangement of Trees and Gardens
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In the said garden there should also be the planning for an
extensively large pool in whose water body there should not be any
aquatic creature, leaving it to be very clear and transparent. The
pool so designed has to be suitable for boating. Its boundaries are
to be planted with flower bearing plants and the water body to be
spread over with newly sprouted groves of lotus leaves at places
having blue lotus. Further, such blue lotus amidst it resembles that
of the iris in the midst of the graceful eyes of a beautiful woman.
162 In gardens such water reservoirs are to be prepared where
the water is very clear and crystalline mirror-scoping the gardens
beauty as reflected in its water. It should resemble as if an entire
garden is emerged within the pond. At different other places such
water are oblongs to be prepared where the bright white reflection
of the moonlight rays covers the entire water as if it were to be a
moonlight reservoir instead of water.
163 At different places in the garden
ṇḍ貹
(canopies/pavilion) are to be constructed as white as crystals
adorned with plantain trees. A plantain abode (vesma) amidst the
mandapas is to be constructed which would resemble as white as
the peak of mountain Himālaya. It should be well ventilated and
162 Jugnu Shrikrishna, Vṛkṣāyurveda, v. 295, p. 139
163 Jugnu Shrikrishna, Vṛkṣäyurveda, v. 296, p. 139
