Herbal cosmetics in ancient India with a treatise on planta cosmetica / Kunda B. Patkar & P.V. Bole.

  • Patkar, Kunda B.
Date:
1997
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Credit: Herbal cosmetics in ancient India with a treatise on planta cosmetica / Kunda B. Patkar & P.V. Bole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1-51 Either Nankera (shell or fibres) or Niniba stem or any other white stem should be rubbed (on a stone) along with water in order to make a paste. Rajani should be taken one-fourth the amount of the paste and added to it. If half the amount of Gairika (red ochre)or Rajani is added, Kumkiuna is obtained. Rava. 9: 115, 116. p, 169. 1-52 If styles of Palash flower are made into a paste, and (paste of) twenty parts of white Tandula (rice) and ten parts of Chunnwn (lime) are mixed together and stirred by any Kastha (wood) and if sweat (human) collected in an earthen pot is added to it slowly till it starts thickening and if small pills are made up of this compound, Kwnkwna is formed. Rava : 9: 117, 118, p. 169. 1-53 If quarter measure Palashpuspa and same amount of white Tandula are reduced to fine powder, and small pills are made and are dried, Kumkiuna is the final product. Rava. 9: 119, p. 169. 1-54 If five parts of Nakha (fragrant shell odoriferous lid of the shells of Puqmrca Murex) (Dutt 15, 1877) and ten parts of Sanathshali (red variety of rice) are cooked in Taila (oil) along with Kusumbha powder, Kwnkwna is formed. H. 2(5): 164. p, 49.