That best of Brahmanas passed the days in terrible suffering. One day, after the sixth division came, he succeeded in getting a prastha of barley.
क्षपयामास तं कालं कृच्छ्रप्राणो द्विजोत्तमः। अथ षष्ठे गते काले यवप्रस्थमुपार्जयन्॥