Witnessed by: Ayurveda

Goat horn (Capra hircus), of the Bovidae (Mammalia) family. The domestic goat — a small horned ruminant of the Bovidae, kept for milk, hair and meat across the subcontinent; native range: the domestic goat, kept throughout the Indian subcontinent; the horns taken from the slaughtered animal. Globally recognized as ajā śṛṅga in Sanskrit, and goat horn in English. The part used is the horn, rasped or powdered. A slender, backward-curving keratin horn, ridged across its length, grey-black to horn-brown, hard and slightly translucent at the tip; rasped to a pale shaving that smells faintly of burnt hair when heated.

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