That man who, before eating himself, gives every day, for a year only a handful of grass to a cow belonging to another, is considered as practising a vow or observance which bestows the fruition of every desire.
घासमुष्टिं परगवे दद्यात् संवत्सरं यः। अकृत्वा स्वयमाहारं व्रतं तत् सार्वकामिकम्॥