Fasting for four days successively he who eats only one meal every fifth day, and pours libations on the sacred fire every day for a the period of a whole year, and who lives without cupidity, telling the truth, respecting the Brahmanas, abstaining from every sort of injury, and avoiding malice and sin, acquires the merit of the Vajapeya sacrifice.
देवराजस्य च क्रीडां नित्यकालमवेक्षते। दिवसे पञ्चमे यस्तु प्राश्नीयादेकभोजनम्॥ सदा द्वादशमासांस्तु जुह्वानो जातवेदसम्। अलुब्धः सत्यवादी च ब्रह्मण्यश्चाविहिंसकः॥ अनसूयुरपापस्थो द्वादशाहफलं लभेत्।