Yudhishthira from that time began to always make gifts of kine and to maintain himself with grains of barley and cowdung as both his food and drink, The king also began to sleep from that day on the naked earth, and possessed of controlled soul and resembling a bull in conduct, he become the foremost of monarchs.
इति नृप सततं गवां प्रदाने यवशकलान् सह गोमयैः पिबानः। क्षितितलशयनः शिखी यतात्मा वृष इव राजवृषस्तदा बभूव॥