After offering worship to Govinda with fruits, garlands, and fragrant ointments, the devotee, filled with joy, carefully prepares a sacred mandala and constructs a sthaṇḍila. This sthaṇḍila is made square on all sides, measuring one ratni, smooth and pleasing to the eye, and surrounded by three embankments. Each embankment is raised to the height of a finger and two fingers wide, while above the sthaṇḍila, the wall reaches eight fingers in height. Using river sand and a winnowing basket, the devotee fashions an image of Lakshmi. The basket is placed upon the sthaṇḍila, and with reverence, Lakshmi is worshipped. The devotee offers obeisance to the goddess, invoking Peace, Lakshmi, Fortune, Nourishment, Satisfaction, Rain, and Joy, repeating prayers for their blessings. With heartfelt devotion, the devotee addresses Viśokā: “O Viśokā, remover of sorrow, grant me boons; may you bring prosperity and all attainments.” Next, the winnowing basket is wrapped in white cloths and worshipped with fruits, various garments, and a golden lotus. Throughout each night, the wise drink water using darbha grass, and the night is filled with arrangements for singing, dancing, and joyous festivities. When three watches of the night have passed, after resting and rising, the devotee approaches and worships couples of Brahmins. According to one’s ability, either three couples or one, the devotee offers garments, garlands, and ointments to those lying on beds, paying obeisance to the one who lies on the waters. With singing and instrumental music, the night is kept awake in vigil, and at dawn, after bathing, the married couple is worshipped. The devotee then eats according to their means, free from miserliness, and after eating, listens to the recitation of the Puranas, passing the day in spiritual contentment. This entire process is repeated each month. At the end of the vow, a bed is given as an offering, accompanied by jaggery, a cow, bedding, a pillow, and a beautiful covering. The devotee prays: “O Lord of the gods, may Lakshmi never leave you; may I always possess beauty, health, and freedom from sorrow. Just as fortune never arises without the divine, so may my devotion to Keśava be supreme and free from sorrow.” With this mantra, one desiring prosperity offers a bed, a sweet cow, and a winnowing basket together with Lakshmi. Certain flowers are always considered auspicious for these offerings: lotus, oleander, arrow, unfaded saffron, ketakī, sinduvāra, jasmine, fragrant pāṭalā, kadamba, kubjaka, and jāti. Then, a question arises: “O Lord of the world, explain to me the procedure for the sweet cow. In what form and with which mantra should it be given?” The response is given, detailing the form and result of the sweet cow offering, which destroys all sins. A four-handed black antelope skin is placed facing east on the ground, smeared with cow dung, and darbha grass is spread all around. A smaller antelope skin is prepared for the calf. The cow is arranged facing east, with water at her feet, alongside her calf. The best sweet cow should weigh four units; the calf one unit. A medium cow weighs two units, and the calf should be half a unit, with the lowest being a quarter unit. The calf’s portion is adjusted according to the household’s wealth. Both cow and calf have mouths of clarified butter, are clothed in fine white garments, have shells for ears, sugarcane for feet, and pure pearls for eyes. Their hair is made of white thread, their coverings are white blankets, with copper cheeks and backs, and white yak-tail hair. Coral eyebrows adorn them, butter forms their udders, linen their tails, bronze their milking vessels, and sapphire their pupils. Golden horn ornaments and silver hooves complete their adornment, along with various fruits and fragrant containers for noses. After arranging them thus, worship is performed with incense and lamps. Prayers are offered: “May the goddess Lakṣmī, who dwells among all beings and resides among the gods in the form of a cow, grant me peace. May Rudrāṇī, beloved of Śaṃkara and residing in the body as a cow, remove my sin. May the Lakṣmī on Viṣṇu’s chest, the Svāhā of fire, the power of the moon, sun, and Indra, in the form of a cow, bring me prosperity. May the Lakṣmī of the four-faced one, the Lord of Wealth, and the guardians of the worlds, in the form of a cow, grant me boons. May the cow, who is Svadhā for the chief ancestors, Svāhā for the recipients of sacrifice, and remover of all sins, grant me peace.” Having addressed the cow thus, it is presented to a Brahmin, following the prescribed procedure for all such cows. There are ten cows said to destroy sin, and their forms and names are described: the jaggery-cow, the ghee-cow, the sesame-cow, the water-cow, the milk-cow, the honey-cow, the sugar-cow, the curd-cow, the juice-cow, and the tenth by its own nature. For the liquid cows, pots are used; for others, heaps. Some also desire the golden cow. Some sages use fresh butter and gems, which are considered proper implements. With invocation through mantras, these cows should always be given at each festival, according to one’s faith, granting the fruits of enjoyment and liberation. All these cows, especially in connection with the jaggery-cow, are auspicious, remove sin, and bestow the complete fruit of sacrifice.