A person who observes the Nakṣatrapuruṣa vṛta (ceremony) will, after his death, become a star and along with the innumerable stars of brilliant lustre, live to the end of Brahmā ’s day (432,000,000 years after which occurs the dissolution of the Universe). At the beginning of the next kalpa , the person will first be born a famous emperor and in his next birth, he will be born either a king or a rich man or a Brāhmaṇa .