Given to truth, possessed of a tranquil soul, free from cupidity, always truthful in speech, and behaving with respect towards kine with the steadiness of a vow, the man who, for a whole year, before himself taking any food, regularly presents some food to kine, acquires the merit, by such an act, of the gift of a thousand kine.
योऽग्रं भक्तं किंचिदप्राश्य दद्याद् गोभ्यो नित्यं गोव्रती सत्यवादी। शान्तोऽलुब्धो गोसहस्रस्य पुण्यं संवत्सरेणाप्नुयात् सत्यशीलः॥