By making, under the constellation Purvashadha, a gift, to a Brahmana knowing the Vedas and of good family and conduct, of cups filled with curds, while observing a fast, one is born in his next life in a family having abundant kine. One secures the fruition of every desire, by making gifts, under the constellation Uttarashadha, of jugs full of barleywater, with clarified butter and juice of sugarcane in abundance.
अथ पूर्वास्वषाढार दधिपात्राण्युपोषितः। कुलवृत्तोपसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे वेदपारगे॥ पुरुषो जायते प्रेत्य कुले सुबहुगोधने। उदमन्थं ससर्पिष्कं प्रभूतमधिफाणितम्। दत्त्वोत्तरास्वषाढासु सर्वकामानवाप्नुयात्॥