Haritaki hair-blackening paste

Haritaki fried in oil and kamsa powder in equal parts, roasted iron powder equal to both and nilanjana equal to that are mixed with an equal amount of paste of bhringaraja, mallika, sahachara, saireyaka, nili and turmeric, ground with oil in a mortar, and kept in a strong iron vessel in a heap of grain for six months, or three, or two, or one; after due worship it is applied to white hair, which is said to become black like collyrium at once.