He who performs the sacred Agnihotra for one hundred years acquires the same mcrit as he who lives only one month of Kartikeya in Pushkara.
यस्तु वर्षशतं पूर्णमग्निहोत्रमुपासते।॥ कार्तिकी वा वसेदेकां पुष्करे सममेव तत्॥