By observing a fast on the twelfth day of the moon in the month of Bhadrapada and adoring Krishna as Hrishikesha for the whole day and night, one acquires the merits of the sautramani sacrifice and becomes purged off of all sins.
तथा भाद्रपदे मासि हृषीकेशेति पूजयन्। सौत्रामणिमवाप्नोति पूतात्मा भवते च हि॥