89 1. The roots of Bahacha grass (a kind of milled should be collected during a solar eclipse and powdered, and mixed with clarified butter. One who takes it fo r seven days will equal Brihaspati (the Hindu Jupiter) in intellect. 2. Sixteen tolas weight of powdered roots of Babaohti grass should be soaked for one day in the liquid extract of myrobalan. It should be taken for seven days mixed with clarified butter ; this will increase the memory, intellect, and eloquence. 3. The intellect becomes sharp, if the powdered roots of BabacM grass is taken with clarified butter and honey. 4. The roots of the white swallow-wort should be col- lected in the eighth lunar mansion falling on a Sunday. It should be dried in the shade and then reduced to powder. This should be taken every morning, of the weight of a tola, mixed with milk before the meal and that for seven days. Milk should also be taken after meal. It increases the power of comprehension and sharpens the memory, so much so, that he will remember a hundred slokas after a single reading. 112. How TO MAKE THE VOICE MELODIOUS. 1. Nutmeg, bay-leaf, long pepper, parched hard paddy, and sesamum seeds should all be powdered and taken for seven days in the liquid extract of the leaves of the citron called soleng. This will make the voice as melodious as that of a cuckoo. 2. The roots of Sewtili (Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis) should be reduced to powder and taken in sesamum oil. This also makes the voice melodious. 3. The same result is obtained by taking the juice of wild turmeric with sugar and honey in cooked rice.
