One who makes, under the constellation Uttara, a gift of mutton, pleases the departed manes by such an act and acquires unending merit in the next world.
औरभ्रमुत्तरायोगे यस्तु मांसं प्रयच्छति। स पितॄन् प्रीणयति वै प्रेत्य चानन्त्यमश्नुते॥