Having given away a cow, the giver should for three nights, adopt the vaccine vow, and pass one night with kine. Beginning again from that lunation, numbering the eighth, named Kamya, he should pass three nights, living exclusively on milk and the urine and dung of the cow.
गा वै दत्त्वा गोव्रती स्यात् त्रिरात्रं निशां चैकां संवसेतेह ताभिः। कामाष्टम्यां वर्तितव्यं त्रिरात्रं रसैर्वा गोः शकृता प्रस्रवैर्वा॥