No fast for more than a month, O king, has been ordained. Even this, O son of Pritha, is the ordinance about fasts that has been declared by sages conversant with duties.
मासादूर्ध्वं नरव्याघ्र नोपवासो विधीयते। विधि त्वनशनस्याहुः पार्थ धर्मविदो जनाः॥