Standing in the eight quarters, the elephants said, On the sacred eighth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Kartika when the constellation Ashlesha is in the ascendant, one should make gifts of treacle and rice.
दिग्गजा ऊचुः कार्तिके मासि चाश्लेषा बहुलस्याष्टमी शिवा। तेन नक्षत्रयोगेन यो ददाति गुडौदनम्॥