By living upon only one meal a day, procured by begging, by doing all his acts himself, by going about begging with a human skull in one hand and a staff with a skull on it in another, by becoming a Brahmacharin and always ready for work, by renouncing all malice, by sleeping on the naked earth, by declaring his offence publicly, by doing all this for full twelve years, a person can cleanse himself from the sin of a Brahmanicide.
एककालं तु भुञ्जीत चरन् भैक्ष्यं स्वकर्मकृत्। कपालपाणिः खट्वाङ्गी ब्रह्मचारी सदोत्थितः॥ अनसूयुरधःशायी कर्म लोके प्रकाशयन्। पूर्णीदशाभिर्वषैर्ब्रह्महा विप्रमुच्यते॥