The Brahmana in his next life comes by the position of that order upon whose food he lives through life or with the undigested portion of whose food in his stomach he dies.
यस्यान्नेनावशेषेण जठरे यो म्रियेद् द्विजः। तां तां योनि व्रजेद् विप्रो यस्यान्नमुपजीवति॥