Hair-blackening oil

Iron powder (the verse adds licorice and nilanjana) is ground in a mortar into oil prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky trees, mahanila and the roots of blue lotus and red kumuda; used as before, it is said to make the hair very black. In verse 93 white hair is first smeared with triphala paste and washed with triphala decoction, then an equal amount of iron powder ground with the juices of champa, vidanga and kunduru and rice-washing water is applied, and white hair is said to become black. Footnotes say आंघ्रिक्वाथ may also mean a quarter decoction and give लिह्य as a variant reading.