In respect of the latter, there are various recipes involving oils, unguents, and juices. One unguent that has amatory appeal is composed of tabernamontana coronaria, costus speciosus, and flacourtia cataphracta. Another aid is oil of hogweed, echites putrescens, the sarina plant, yellow amaranth, and leaf of nymphae. This salve is applied to the body. Let the man eat the powder of the nelumbrium speciosum, the blue lotus, the mesna roxburghii, together with clarified butter, which is ghee, and honey. The bone of a peacock, or of a hyena, covered with gold and fastened on the right hand, has an exciting effect. Similarly with a bead made from the seed of the jujube or a conch shell, that is enchanted by magic spells and then fastened on the hand. A mixture of powders of white thorn apple, black pepper, long pepper, and honey is reputedly a means of female subjugation. So with an ointment made of the emblica myrabolens plant. A drink of milk and sugar, the pipar chaba, liquorice, and the root of the uchchata plant is an invigorating agent. A liquid consisting of milk mixed with juice of the kuili plant, the hedysarum gangeticum, and the kshirika plant is likewise a stimulant. A drink of a paste consisting of asparagus racemosus, the guduchi plant, the shvadaushtra plant, long pepper, liquorice: boiled in milk, ghee, and honey, and taken in the spring time. A man who plays on a reed pipe smeared with juices of the bahupadika plant the costus arabicus, the euphorbia antiquorum, the tabernamontana coronaria, the pinus deodora, the kantaka plant, and the vajfa plant will effect female subjugation. A camel bone, dipped into the juice of the eclipta prostata, then burned, and pigment from the ashes placed in a box made of camel bone, and applied to the eyelashes with a camel bone pencil are also a means of subjugation. A drink of boiled clarified butter, in the morning, in the spring time, is equally effective. A drink of asparagus racemosus and the shvadaushtra plant, with pounded fruit of premna spinosa, in water. A drink composed as follows: The covering of sesame seeds, soaked in sparrows’ eggs: boiled in milk, with ghee and sugar, with fruit of the trapa bispinosa and the kasuriki plant: with the addition of flour of beans and wheat. Vigor is increased by a brew consisting of rice, with sparrows’ eggs: boiled in milk, together with honey and ghee. The Kama Sutra suggests that the means of arousing vigor may also be learned from medicine, from the Vedas, and from adepts in Magic. Nothing that may be injurious in its effects, however, should be employed, only such means as are holy and recognized as good. * * * * * Other stimulants that are known to the Hindu manuals of erotology include the following: