He considers himself as sometimes eating at intervals of one night, or once at the same hour every day, or as at the fourth, the sixty, and the eight hour every day, or as once in six or seven or cight nights, or as once in ten or twelve days, or as once, in a month, or as eating only roots, or fruits, or as living upon air or water alone, or on cakes of sesame husk, or curds or cowdung, or the urine of the cow or potherbs or flowers or moss or raw food, or as living on falled leaves of trees or fruits that have dropped down and lie scattered on the ground, or various other sorts of food, moved by the desire of acquiring ascetic success.
एकरात्रान्तराशित्वमेककालिकभोजनम्। चतुर्थाष्टमकालश्च षष्ठकालिक एव च॥ घड्रात्रभोजनश्चैव तथैवाष्टाहभोजनः। सप्तरात्रदशाहारो द्वादशाहिकभोजनः॥ मासोपवासी मूलाशी फलाहारस्तथैव च। वायुभक्षोऽम्बुपिण्याकदधिगोमयभोजनः॥ गोमूत्रभोजनश्चैव शाकपुष्पाद एव च। शैवालभोजनश्चैव तथाऽऽवामेन वर्तयन्॥ वर्तयन् शीर्णपणैश्च प्रकीर्णफलभोजनः। विविधानि च कृच्छ्राणि सेवते सिद्धिकासया॥