That man who having fasted for sixteen days, eats a little clarified butter on the seventeenth day, and acts thus for a whole year, pouring libations every day on his sacred fire, proceeds to the regions of Varuna and Indra and Rudra and the Maruts and Ushanas and Brahman himself.
आवर्तनानि चत्वारि साधयेच्चाप्यसौ नरः। दिवसे सप्तदशमे यः प्राप्ते प्राशते हविः॥ सदा द्वादशमासान् वै जुह्वानो जातवेदसम्। स्थानं वारुणमैन्द्रं च रौद्रं वाप्यधिगच्छति॥ मारुतौशनसे चैव ब्रह्मलोकं स गच्छति।