One should, on the eighth day of the moon that is known by the name of Kamyashtami, make gifts a kine, properly got, to the Brahinanas, after determining the fitness of the recipients. After making the gift, one should then live for ten days together upon only the milk of kine, their dung and their urin ..
एतद् दानं न्यायलब्धं द्विजेभ्यः पात्रे दत्तं प्रापणीयं परीक्ष्य। काम्याष्टम्या वर्तितव्यं दशाह रसैर्गवां शकृता प्रस्रवैर्वा॥