Verse 29

²⁹Wanting to worship Krsna, joined with a queen of the same temper as his own, the hero kept the vow of the twelfth day for a whole year. ³⁰At the end of the vow, in the month of Kartika, having fasted three nights and bathed once in the Kalindi, he worshipped Hari in the Madhu wood. ³¹With the rite of the great bathing, with a full store of every article, having bathed him, then with clothes and ornaments, with perfumes, garlands, offerings and the rest, ³²with all that was inside him gone out to him, he worshipped Kesava, and out of devotion he worshipped the brahmins too, greatly favoured men who had already got what they wanted.

³³Of cows with gilded horns and silver hooves, well covered, rich in milk, in temper, in age, in shape, in calves and in their fittings, ³⁴he sent six hundred million to good brahmins in their houses. Having first fed the twice-born with sweet food of the finest sort, ³⁵and being given leave by them when their wishes had been met, he set about breaking his fast. Just then the revered Durvasas himself came to him as a guest. ³⁶The king honoured his guest by rising, by a seat and by offerings, and coming to his feet he asked him to take food.