After such worship, every one of them looked as effulgent as the moon in the sky. Then bright and polished golden plates, adorned with engravings, and filled with rich viands prepared with clarified butter and honey, were given to those Brahmanas. Every year in the month of Ashada and Magha, a great number of Brahmanas used to receive from he Rakshasa chief, after proper honours, the most excellent food which they desired. Especially, on the day of full moon in the month of Kartika, after the termination of autumn, the king use to give to the Brahmanas much wealth of various kinds, including gold, silver, jewels, gems, pearls, costly diamonds, stones of the lapis lazuli variety, deer-skins, and skins of the Ranku deer. Indeed, O Bharata, throwing a mass of wealth of various sorts for giving it away as Dakshina, the powerful Virupaksha, addressing those foremost Brahmanas, said to them,-Take from these jewels and gems as much as you wish and can hope to carry away.
ततो जाम्बूनदीः पात्रीर्वज्राङ्का विमलाः शुभाः। वरान्नपूर्णा विप्रेभ्यः प्रादान्मधुघृतप्लुताः॥ तस्य नित्यं सदाऽऽषाढ्यां माध्यां च बहवो द्विजाः। ईप्सितं भोजनवरं लभन्ते सत्कृतं सदा॥ विशेषतस्तु कार्तिक्यां द्विजेभ्यः सम्प्रयच्छति। शरट्यपाये रत्नानि पौर्णमास्यामिति श्रुतिः॥ सुवर्णं रजतं चैव मणीनथ च मौक्तिकान्॥ वज्रान महाधनांश्चैव वैदूर्याजिनराङ्कवान्। रत्नराशीन् विनिक्षिप्य दक्षिणार्थे स भारत॥ ततः प्राह द्विजश्रेष्ठान् विरूपाक्षो महाबलः। गृह्णीत रत्नान्येतानि यथोत्साहं यथेष्टतः॥