Gold and other precious metals should be given as Dakshina. One should offer as gift to all scriptures three palas of gold with full concentration of mind. Or one and half or threforth palas on all sriptures. However, one should not be miser if he has suffice wealth. The things dearer to a man should be offered as gift to the Brahmains. The reciter is once preceptor hence he should be satisfied with keen devotion. The names should then be taken of all the celestials as also of Nara and Narayana.
हिरण्यं च सुवर्णं च दक्षिणामथ दापयेत्। सर्वत्र त्रिपलं स्वर्ण दातव्यं प्रयतात्मना॥ तदर्धं पादशेष वा वित्तशाठ्यविवर्जितम्। यद् यदेवात्मनोऽभीष्टं तत् तद् देयं द्विजातये॥ सर्वथा तोषयेद् भक्त्या वाचकं गुरुमात्मनः । देवता: कीर्तयेत् सर्वा नरनारायणौ तथा॥