Having adored the deities duly food should be first dedicated to them. It has been said, O king that the kind of food that is taken by particular men is taken also by the gods those men worship.
अर्चयित्वा यथान्यायं देवेभ्योऽन्नं निवेदयेत्। यदन्ना हि नरा राजंस्तदन्नास्तस्य देवताः॥