With the help of clarified butter, one should pour libations on the sacred fire. By making gifts of clarified butter, one should make the Brahmanas utter benedictions on oneself. One should eat clarified butter and make gifts of clarified butter. As the reward of this conduct, one may then acquire that prosperity, which belongs to kine.
घृतेन जुहुयादग्निं घृतेन स्वस्ति वाचयेत्। घृतं प्राशेद् घृतं दद्याद् गवां पुष्टिं तथाश्नुते॥