The story is set at the beginning of the present age and it is about nobody knowing what a monk is. Rishabhanatha, having renounced, walked for a year without eating, because when he came to houses people offered him what they thought a king who had left his kingdom would want: jewels, elephants, horses, thrones, their daughters in marriage. Nobody offered food, and he could accept nothing that was given for the wrong reason or in the wrong manner. After a full year he came to Hastinapura, where a king named Shreyansa had a dream, remembered a former life in which he had been a monk's attendant, understood immediately what was required, and offered fresh sugarcane juice in cupped hands, which Rishabha accepted. The date is Akshaya Tritiya, and the practice follows directly: Jains completing the long varshitap fast break it with sugarcane juice on that day, in ceremonies held across India. The story is also the tradition's founding statement about giving — that the gift has to be the right thing, given in the right way, by someone who understands what they are doing.