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thin. Mix ttese well with a quart of milk, adding 2 lbs. of moist sugar. 

 Give after watering : give for not less than forty days. 



31. — Receipt for Khir 



Take boiled moth and mix it with milk ; add some moist sugar and 

 then increase the heat of the fire double, mixing all into one soft mass. 

 Set aside to cool. Before feeding, mix with milk instead of water and 

 give, as a feed, the usual weight instead of grain. Also in the evening 

 give one told of pepper and four of green ginger. 



32. — Receipt for HalwI of Green Ginger 



This should be given in the Ghau-mdsa^ or four rainy months. 



Take turmeric, green ginger, and fenugreek seed, of each 5 lbs. ; 

 pound and mix ; put 5 lbs. of ghl on the fire, and fry the ingredients in 

 it till a light brown ; then mix in 10 lbs. of shakar (moist sugar), and 

 add ten quarts of cow's milk ; skim while cooking. Put aside and give 

 some of this daily, after watering ; begin with \ lb., but increase the 

 quantity gradually up to 2 lbs. 



33. — On Fattening with Raw Brown Sugar 



Mix into some maheld of moth, a fourth of its quantity of hhdnd 

 (raw brown sugar), and give every morning and evening. 



34. — On Fattening on Bupfalo-horn 



Bury in mud one horn of a buffalo so that it may become soft. 

 After twenty-four hours remove and convert it into " saw-dust." Add 

 an equal quantity of pure honey ; put into a jar, cover, and hermetically 

 seal with clay ; cover with dried cow-dung, kindle the cow-dung, 

 and cook thoroughly till the mixture becomes quite white and shining. 

 Then take equal quantities of shahtara (Fumaria officinalis), 

 carbonate of soda, Aplotaxis auriculata, black-pepper, long-pepper, 

 dry ginger, moth, gilau (Tinospora cordifolia), rock-salt, and geru:^ 

 pound and sift, and then add of the powder obtained, double the 

 quantity of the mixture in the pot ; mix all together and put aside. 

 Give as follows for three weeks : — 



The first week give with gogal (or Balsamodendron makul) ; the 

 second with shakar (cane sugar) ; the third with ght. Give the first 

 day 5 dirham,^ the second day 10, the third day 15, the fourth day 20 ; 



' Begins on the 1 1th day after the new moon of Asdrh and ends at the full moon 

 Kcitik. During this period the Gods are asleep, and no religious ceremony is 

 observed. A portion of the Autumnal Durgah Puja, however, falls in this period, 

 so the Gods have to be specially roused six days before their time. 



^ Geru. Vide p. 26, note 9. 



^ A dirham is a weight of 48 grains of barley, equivalent, in Indian weight, to 

 1 mdsha and 7 ratfi. 



