Matsyapurana 101.39

101.39

dattvā śivapadaṃ gacched viprāya ghṛtapāyasam
etacchīlavrataṃ nāma śīlārogyaphalapradam //

One who abstains from flowers and clarified butter from one solstice to another and at the end of that period gives garlands, clarified butter, and cows to a Brâhmaṇa, and feeds them on clarified butter, rice cooked in milk and sugar, goes to the region of Śiva. This is (22) Śîla-Vrata, the giver of modesty and good health.—38-39.