This very subject which you have introduced regarding the merits of the gift of flowers and incense and lamps, came up on the occasion. Indeed the king of the Daityas put this high question of Shukra that most learned of all ascetics.
कथेयमभवत् तत्र त्वया या परिकीर्तिता। सुमनोधूपदीपानां सम्प्रदाने फलं प्रति॥ ततः पप्रच्छ दैत्येन्द्रः कवीन्द्रं प्रश्नमुत्तमम्॥