By perishing by the weapons of a person living by the use of arms, of one's own accords and upon the advice of persons read in the scriptures, or by throwing one's self down, for three times, with head downwards, upon a burning fire, or by walking a hundred Yojanas reciting the Vedas, or by presenting one's all to a Brahmana well read in the Vedas, or at least so much by which he would live comfortably for life, or a house properly furnished, and by protecting kine and Brahmanas, one may be purged of the sin of Brahmanicide.
लक्ष्यः शस्त्रभृतां वा स्याद् विदुषामिच्छयाऽऽत्मनः। प्रास्येदात्मानमग्नौ वा समिद्धे त्रिरवाक्छिराः॥ जपन् वान्यतमं वेदं योजनानां शतं व्रजेत्। सर्वस्वं वा वेदविदे ब्राह्मणायोपपादयेत्॥ धनं वा जीवनायालं गृहं वा सपरिच्छदम्। मुच्यते ब्रह्महत्याया गोप्ता गोब्राह्मणस्य च॥