Sūta said: The following shall be practised throughout: non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy, forgiveness, mercifulness, three times ablution, Agnihotra, sleeping on the bare ground, food at night only, observance of fast on eighth and fourteenth days in both the fortnights. Thus the Śivavrata for each month has been fully recounted. O brahmins, the devotee shall observe this Vrata for a year in the order mentioned or in the reverse order. He then attains identity with Siva and obtains the path of perfect knowledge.[10]