By and bye the Brahmana, leaving off fruits and roots, began to use leaves of trees as his food. Then leaving off leaves, he took to water only as his subsistence.
त्यरत्वा मूलफलं सर्वं पर्णाहारोऽभवद् द्विजः। पर्णं त्यक्त्वा जलाहारः पुनरासीद् द्विजस्तदा।॥