The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 229

p. 229

एवं ते वान्तमश्नन्ति स्ववीर्यस्योपभोजनात् ॥

In plain words

So this is what they end up eating: their own vomit — because they consume the very potency that was theirs.

Close to the Sanskrit

Thus they eat what has been vomited, from the consuming of their own potency.