Therefore, O foremost one of Bharata's race do you relate this matter to me truly! How without renouncing his body and taking another body of flesh could he become a Brahmana?
किमेतदिति तत्त्वेन प्रब्रूहि भरतर्षभ। देहान्तरमनासाद्य कथं स ब्राह्मणोऽभवत्॥