Chapter 43 of 51 · Uma Samhita · Overall chapter 357 of 464
Worship of Vyasa
A brief, practical chapter specifying the exact ritual gifts - garments, ornaments, a cow and calf, a golden seat, and the text itself written in fine lettering - owed to the acharya and reciter once a full reading of a Purana is complete, framing proper gratitude toward the teacher as essential to the fruits of listening at all.
Shounaka said
Suta, you whose guru is Vyasa, tell me how an acharya should be honoured and what should be done once the listening to the text is finished.
Suta replied
Once the supreme account has been heard, the acharya should be honoured with devotion, in the right manner. When the recitation ends the listener, glad at heart, should make gifts to the acharya according to the rules, and the one who recited should also be honoured properly. A kind and wise person should present him with garments and ornaments for hands and ears. After the worship of Shiva is complete he should give the acharya a cow with her calf, and a gold seat of one pala's weight covered with cloth, on which the auspicious text, written in a fine hand, is placed to be given to him. A person who does this is freed from the bonds of worldly life. Sage, as his means allow, he should also give the great-souled reciter a village, an elephant, a horse and other things. Shounaka, hearing the Purana bears fruit only when done properly, by the rules; this is the truth. So when it is recited, one should listen to it with devotion, as the rules direct. This lofty Purana holds the meaning of the nigama texts, is sacred, and is the heart of the shruti.
Retold in our own words from Bibek Debroy's English translation of the Shiva Purana (Penguin Classics). Names, numbers and the order of events follow the source.