Matsyapurana 54.27

54.27

evaṃ nivedya tatsarvaṃ vastramālyānulepanam
nakṣatrapuruṣajñāya viprāyātha visarjayet //

After that, the Brâhmaṇa versed in astronomy, should be dismissed by giving away the image of the nakṣatra puruṣa, along with clothes, garland, sandal paste, &c. The worshipper should abstain from salt and oily food during all the twenty-seven days of his observance of the Vrata, and should feed others according to his means, without giving way to miserliness.—27-28.