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ca, will make the hair white. (i). The juice of the roots of the madayantaka plant, the yellow amaranth, the anjanika plant, the clitoria ternateea, and the shlakshnaparni plant, used as a lotion, will make the hair grow. (j). An ointment made by boiling the above roots in oil, and rubbed in, will make the hair black, and will also gradually restore hair that has fallen off. (k) If lac is saturated seven times in the sweat of the testicle of a white horse, and applied to a red lip, the lip will become white. (l). The colour of the lips can be regained by means of the madayantika and other plants mentioned above under (i). (m). A woman who hears a man playing on a reed pipe which has been dressed with the juices of the bahupadika plant, the tabernamontana coronaria, the costus speciosus or arabicus, the pinus deodora, the euphorbia antiquorum, the vajra and the kantaka plant, becomes his slave. (n). If food be mixed with the fruit of the thorn apple (Dathura) it causes intoxication. (o). If water be mixed with oil and the ashes of any kind of grass except the kusha grass, it becomes the colour of milk. (p). If yellow myrabolans, the hog plum, the shrawana plant, and the priyangu plant be all pounded together, and applied to iron pots, these pots become red. (q). If a lamp, trimmed with oil extracted from the shrawana and priyangn plants, its wick being made of cloth and the slough of the skins of snakes, is lighted, and long pieces of wood placed near it, those pieces of wood will resemble so many snakes. (r). Drinking the milk of a white cow who has a white calf at her feet is auspicious, produces fame, and preserves life. (s). The blessings of venerable Brahmans, well propitiated, have the same effect. There are also some verses in conclusion: "Thus have I written in a few words the 'Science of love,' after reading the texts of ancient authors, and following the ways of enjoyment mentioned in them." "He who is acquainted with the true principles of this science pays regard to Dharma, Artha, Kama, and to his own experiences, as well as to the teachings of others, and does not act simply on the dictates of his own desire. As for the errors in the science of love which I have mentioned in this work, on my own authority as an author, I have, immediately after mentioning them, carefully censured and prohibited them." "An act is never looked upon with indulgence for the simple reason that
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