They may be date palms, jambu, arjuna, or milky trees, shrubs and creepers. There will be umbrella elephants, hundred-petalled neem trees, night garlands and lotus flowers.
विभीतको वा मदयन्तिका वा यत्रास्ति तस्मिन्पुरुषत्रये अम्भः । स्यात्पर्वतस्यौपरि पर्वतो अन्यस् तत्रापि मूले पुरुषत्रये अम्भः ॥ ५४-१०२ ॥
Wherever there is a vibhitaka or a madayantika, there is water in the three persons. There is another mountain on top of the mountain, and at the root of that mountain there is water in the three persons.
या मौञ्जिकैः काशकुशैश्च युक्ता नीला च मृद्यत्र सशर्करा च । तस्यां प्रभूतं सुरसं च तोयं कृष्णाथ वा यत्र च रक्तमृद्वा ॥ ५४-१०३ ॥
Where the earth is found overgrown with the Muñja grass, with reeds and with the Kuśa grass, the soil black and mixed with pebbles, as well as in places where the soil is black or red, there will be undercurrents containing a large supply of sweet water.
If the soil be red and mixed with pebbles, the water will be astringent in its flavour; if it be brown, the water will be saline; if white, it wall be saltish; and if black it will be sweet.
Wherever the trees—Śāka, Aśvakarṇa, Arjuna, Bilva, Sarjā, Śrīparṇī, Ariṣṭa, Dhava and Śiṃśapa are found to grow, or where the leaves of trees, bushes and creepers are found perforated with holes, or where such trees, bushes and creepers put on a forbidding appearance, there will be no water in the neighbourhood,