He destroys the food (lic takes), and having destroyed that food he becomes destroyed himself. The learned man, however, giſted with power, destroys his food for reproducing it.
स चानं हन्ति तं चान्नं स हत्वा हन्यते पुनः॥ हन्ता ह्यन्नमिदं विद्वान् पुनर्जनयतीश्वरः।