One should eat, sitting on a cowhide purified by dipping it in water, and then look towards the west. Sitting with controlled speech, one should eat clarified butter using the bare earth as his dish. One reaps, on account of such deeds, that prosperity of which kine are the root.
सार्दै चर्मणि भुञ्जीत निरीक्षेद् वारुणी दिशम्। वाग्यत: सर्पिषा भूमौ गवां पुष्टि सदाश्नुते॥