He who celebrates sacrifices for worshipping the deities on the fifth and the sixth days of the moon, becomes superior to all the members of his family and succeeds in feeding a large number of Brahmanas. He who observes fasts on the eighth and the fourteenth days of the dark fortnight, becomes freed from diseases and possessed of great energy. The man who abstains from one meal every day throughout the month called Margashirsha, should, with respect and devotion, feed a number of Brahmanas. By so doing he becomes freed from all his sins. Such a man becomes gifted with prosperity, and all sorts of grain become his.
यजिष्णुः पञ्चमी षष्ठी कुले भोजयते द्विजान्। अष्टमीमथ कौरव्य कृष्णपक्षे चतुर्दशीम्॥ उपोष्य व्याधिरहितो वीर्यवानभिजायते। मार्गशीर्षं तु यो मासमेकभक्तेन संक्षिपेत्॥ भोजयेच्च द्विजाशक्त्या स मुच्येद् व्याधिकिल्बिशैः। सर्वकल्याणसम्पूर्ण: सर्वोषधिसमन्वितः॥