After such worship, every one of them looked as effulgent as the moon in the sky. Then bright and polished golden plates, adorned with engravings, and filled with rich viands prepared with clarified butter and honey, were given to those Brahmanas. Every year in the month of Ashada and Magha, a great number of Brahmanas used to receive from he Rakshasa chief, after proper honours, the most excellent food which they desired. Especially, on the day of full moon in the month of Kartika, after the termination of autumn, the king use to give to the Brahmanas much wealth of various kinds, including gold, silver, jewels, gems, pearls, costly diamonds, stones of the lapis lazuli variety, deer-skins, and skins of the Ranku deer. Indeed, O Bharata, throwing a mass of wealth of various sorts for giving it away as Dakshina, the powerful Virupaksha, addressing those foremost Brahmanas, said to them,-Take from these jewels and gems as much as you wish and can hope to carry away.