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19. — To CAUSE Hair to grow on a Wound-scar 



Take mnstard oil, mix with, spittle, and apply. Item : mix soap and 

 indigo, and apply. 



20. — To make the Mane and Tail Grow 



Wash witt the water in which sdtht^ rice has been boiled. Item: a 

 good receipt : Take of fenugreek seed and of emblic myrobalan 1 oz. 

 each, and add 1 oz. of katol;^ powder, mix, and sift through cloth; 

 then mix in some strained curds to which a little water has previously 

 been added. Make lukewarm and rub into the roots of the hair in the 

 early morning, washing it out again at noon. The hair will begin to 

 grow well in a week. 



21. — To Dye an unlucky White-stocking, or a Star 



Take of gall-nuts 2 ozs. and fry in mustard oil and then wash. Next, 

 with a pestle, grind yellow arsenic in an iron cooking-pan with very 

 little water ; then add the gall-nuts and again grind. Next add sal- 

 ammoniac and grind. When all is well ground and mixed, use as a dye. 

 If the hair does not take the right shade, apply several times. This dye 

 will last two or three months. This is a good receipt for a seller to 

 know. Item : take of dried black myrobalan, copper-filings, gall-nuts, 

 and dried emblic myrobalan, of each \ oz. ; of yellow arsenic 48 grains ; 

 of sublimated sal-ammoniac 12. First fry the gall-nuts in mustard 

 oil till half-cooked ; then wash the copper-filings several times in water, 

 dry, powder fine, and sift through cloth. Soak the emblic myrobalan 

 all night in water; knead in the morning, and strain through cloth. 

 Pound the other ingredients separately and mix ; then cast them into an 

 iron pot and add by degrees, while grinding with a pestle, some of the 

 water in which the emblic myrobalan has been soaked ; grind for six 

 hours and then apply. Make what remains into small balls and keep 

 till required. To use, dissolve in a little emblic myrobalan water. 



This dye can be used for a man's beard, too. Apply to the beard, 

 and then bind over it leaves of the castor- oil plant. Wash with water 

 three hours. The hair will be black. 



22. — To Dye the Legs of Horses ^ 



Take of dry gram | lb. with four dam of the extract of catechu or 

 cutch {hath) and five dam of flowers of kodhar ; * grind all together, fine 

 as antimony, and apply for two or three days in succession, binding 

 over the legs two or three layers of fig-leaves. 



' Birinj-i scithi, a kind of rice that ripens in sixty days, hence the name. 

 2 Katol, the Jack fruit (Artocarpus incisa). 

 ^ The legs of miqra or albino horses used generally to be dyed. 

 ■* Kodhar is perhaps a copyist's error for lodhar, the Lode or Lodh Tree, 

 Symplocos racemosa, the bark of which is used in dyeing ; vide Watt. 



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