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 i)                    If one finds a ‘Vetasa’ plant (Calamus rotung) in a waterless tract, one is sure to find water by digging the ground at a distance of 3 cubits to the west of it half a Purvsha below the earth (One purusha is equal to 120 angulas that is about 7 ft.).

ii)                  If you find a ‘Jambu’ (Blackberry) tree dig a hole 2 purusha deep, 3 cubits to the north of it and you will find water running in a Vein eastward. If there are ant hills close by to the east of the said Jambu tree you will surely find sweet water in a pit dug 2 purushas deep, 3 cubit to the south of it.

iii)                If a ‘Udumbara’ (Ficus glomerata) tree is seen you are sure to find sweet water flowing in a vein, in a pit dug 2 purushas deep, 3 cubits to the west of it.

iv)                If an ant-hill is found to the north of an ‘Arjuna’ (Terminalia arjuna) tree, water will be found 3 ½ purushas under the earth, at a distance of 3 cubits to the west of that tree.

v)                  If Nirgundi (Vitex trifolia) tree is found with an ant-hill, one will find tasteful water in a pit 2 purushas deep, 3 cubits towards the south.

vi)                If a Vadari (Zizyphus jujube) and Palasa tree (Butea frondosa) are found together you will find good water, 3 purushas under the earth, 3 cubits towards the west of the former.

vii)              When a ‘Vilva’ (Aegle marmelos) and an ‘Udumbara’ (Ficus glomerata) tree are found growing together, you will get water 3 ½ purushas under the surface of the earth at a distance of 3 cubits from the trees.

viii)            Where to the north-east of a ‘Koridara’ (Bauhinia acuminate) tree is found a white ant-hill with Darva (grass) over it, water will be found between them 5 ½ purushas under the ground.

ix)                If a frog is detected living beneath a tree, one will surely get water 4 ½ purushas under the ground towards the north of that tree.

x)                  If an ant-hill inhabited by a serpent is found to the north of a ‘Madhuka’ (Bassia latifolia) tree, you will get water at a distance of 5 cubits from the tree, 7 ½ purushas under the ground.

xi)                If you find a Palmyra or a coconut tree with ant-hills, you will have a vein of good water flowing at a distance of 6 cubits to the west of either of the above trees 4 purushas under the ground.

xii)              There is water near by the trees that are sappy, have long branches, or very dwarfish, or very spreading. And there will be no water near the trees that are sickly and have unhealthy leaves.

xiii)            Water will be found 4 ½ purushas below the ground at a distance of three cubits to the north of the following trees surrounded by ant-hills: Tilaka, Amrataka, Varunaka, Bhallataka, Vilva, Tinduka, Ankola, Pindara, Sirisa, Arjuna, Parushaka, Vanjula and Antibala.

xiv)            If  a thorny tree (e.g., ‘khadira’) is found in the midst of thornless ones (like ‘palasa’), or a thornless tree is found in the midst of thorny ones, water will be found 3 purushas under the ground at a distance of 3 cubits to the west of such a tree.

xv)              If a kantakarika (Solanum sp.) plant is found without thorns and with white flowers water will surely be found under it at a depth of 3 ½ purushas.

xvi)            The region where trees, shrubs and creepers are ‘graceful’ possessing leaves that are untorn (entire), there are veins of water 3 purushas below the ground.  Or where there are sthalapadma, Gokshura, Usira, Kula with Gundra, Kosa, Kusa, Nalik, or Nala (all grasses); or where t her are kharjjura, Jambu, Arjuna, Vetasa, or trees, shrubs or herbs with milky juice, or Chhatra, Hastikarna, Nagakesara, Padma, Nipa, Naktamala with Singhubara or Vibhitaka, Madayantika, water will be found 3 purushas below, even if it be on the mountain upon another mountain, i.e., on a very high ground.

xvii)          Where there are Saka, Aswakarna, Arjuna, Vilvasarjja, Sriparni, arishta, Dhaba, Simsapa with leaves torn (i.e. unhealthy), and where the trees, shrubs and creepers look ungraceful, it could be inferred that no water will be found in that locality.

(There are 125 such practices mentioned in the text ‘Upavana-Vinoda’ written by the same author in the sanskrit treatise on Arbori-Horticulture, 1935, the Indian Research Institute, Calcutta, Chap. II, pp.19-27).