That man who, for a month, lives upon the gruel of barley picked up every day from cowdung, becomes purged of sins as heinous as Brahmanicide.
निर्हतैश्च यवैर्गोभिर्मासं प्रश्रितयावकः। ब्रह्महत्यासमं पापं सर्वमेतेन शुध्यते॥