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19. — To CAUSE Hair to grow oh a Wochd-scae 



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

 indigo, and apply. 



20. — To make the Mane and Tail Grow 



Wash with the water in which sdthl^ 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 wat^r has previously 

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

 early morning, washing it out ag^in at noon. The hair will begin to 

 grow well in a week. 



21. — To Dye an unlucky White-stocking, oe 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 tiU 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 op 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 sdthi, a kind of rice that ripens in sixty days, hence the name. 

 ' Katol, the Jack fruit (Artoearpus incisa). 

 ' The legs of nuqra or albino horses used generally to be dyed. 

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

 Symploeos racemosa, the bark of which is used in dyeing ; vicU Watt. 



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