History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c19.20

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The seventy-seventh chapter of the *Bṛhatsamhita* which has in all thirty-seven verses is entitled *gandhayukti*. It prescribes recipes for blackening hair, scented water fit for washing king’s head, varieties of scented oil, incense, toilet powder, a great number of combinations of perfumes, scented tooth-sticks and betel-leaves with areca-nut (Bhatt 1982, Part.II, pp 704-718).