By observing a fast for the twelfth day of the moon in the month of Ashvin and adoring Krishna as Padmanabha, onc acquires forsooth, the merits of that sacrifice in which a thousand kine are given away.
द्वादश्यामाश्विने मासि पद्मनाभेति चार्चयन्। गोसहस्रफलं पृण्यं प्राप्नुयान्नात्र संशयः॥