The wise man who, with his senses and soul under restraint, O Bharata, fasts, by abstaining from one of the two meals, on the fifth and the sixth days of the moon as also on the day of the full moon, becomes gifted with forgiveness and personal beauty and knowledge of scriptures. Such a person never becomes childless and poor.
पञ्चम्यां वापि षष्ठ्यां च पौर्णमास्यां च भारत। उपोष्य एकभक्तेन नियतात्मा जितेन्द्रियः॥ क्षमावान् रूपसम्पन्नः श्रुतवांश्चैव जायते। नानपत्यो भवेत् प्राज्ञो दरिद्रो वा कदाचन॥