Reciting the Vedas with their branches, he is practising the severest austerities. Whatever libations of clarified butter or meat are poured on the sacrificial fire according to the ordinances of Brahman, by the Rishis, by Pashupati himself, by the rest of the principal gods, by the Daityas, the Danavas, and the Rakshasas, Nagas, Garuda bird, Gandharvas, Siddhas and foremost of the sages and whatever sacrificial oblation are offered, all reach the feet of that great god.