Verse 36
The vow of the twelfth day, and the guest· Verses 29–36
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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.