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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1910.
The powder of másha (phraseolus radiatus), yava (barley), kuluttha (horse gram) and the root of durbha (sacrificial grass) mixed with milk and clarified butter; the milk of vallí (a kind of creeper) and clarified butter derived from it and mixed in equal proportions and combined with the paste prepared from the root of sála (shorea robusta) and prisniparni (hedysarum lagopodioides), when drunk with milk; or a dose of milk mixed with clarified butter and spirituous liquor, both prepared from the above substances, enables one to fast for a month.
The oil prepared from mustard seeds previously kept for seven nights in the urine of a white goat will, when used (externally) after keeping the oil inside a large bitter gourd for a month and a half, alter the colour of both biped and quadruped animals.
The oil extracted from white mustard seeds mixed with the barley corns contained in the dung of a white donkey, which has been living for more than seven nights on a diet of batter, milk and barley, causes alteration in colour.
The oil prepared from mustard seeds which have been previously kept in the urine and fluid Jung of any of the two animals, a white goat and a white donkey, causes (when applied) such white colour as that of the fibre of arka plant or the down of a (white) bird.
The mixture of the dung of a white cock and ajagara (boa-constrictor) causes white colour.
The pastry made from white mustard seeds kept for seven nights in the urine of a white goat mixed with butter milk, the milk of arka plant, salt, and grains (dhanya), causes, when applied for a fortnight, white colour.
The paste, prepared from white mustard seeds which have been previously kept within a large bitter gourd and with clarified butter prepared from the milk of valli (a creeper) for half a month, makes the hair white.
A bitter gourd, a stinking insect (patikita), and a white house-lizard; when a paste prepared from these is applied to the hair, the latter becomes as white as a conch-shell.*
When any part of the body of a man is rubbed over with the pastry (kalka) prepared from tinduka (glutinosa) and arishta (soap-berry), together with the dung of a cow, the part of the body being also smeared over with the juice of bhallataka (semecarpus anacardium), he will catch leprosy in the course of a month.
(The application of the paste prepared from) gunjs seeds kept previously for seven nights in the mouth of a white cobra or in the mouth of a house-lizard brings on leprosy.
External application of the liquid essence of the egg of a parrot and a cuckoo brings on leprosy.
The pastry or decoction prepared from priydla (chironjia sapida or vitis vinifera ?) is a remedy for leprosy.
Whoever eats the mixture of the powders of the roots of kukkuta (marsilia dentata), kodtak (duffa pentandra), and satdoart (asperagus racemosus) for a month will become white,
Whoever bathes in the decoction of vata (banyan tree) and rubs his body with the paste prepared from sahachara (yellow barleria) becomes black.
Sulphuret of arsenic and red arsenic mixed with the oil extracted from sakuna (a kind of bird) and kanku (a vulture) causes blackness.
The powder of khadyota (fire-fly) mixed with the oil of mustard seeds emits light at night.
The powder of khadyota (fire-fly) and gandûnada (earth-worm) or the powder of oceah animals mixed with the powder of bhringa (malabathrum), kapalu (a pot-herb), and khadira (mimosa catechu), and karnikára (pentapetes acerifolia), combined with the oil of sakuna (a bird) and kanka (vulture), is tejanachúrna (ignition powder).
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