मित्रध्रुक् कुनखी क्लीबः श्यावदन्तस् तथा द्विजः कन्यादूषयिता वह्निवेदोज्झः सोमविक्रयी॥ ५ ॥
mitradhruk kunakhī klībaḥ śyāvadantas tathā dvijaḥ kanyādūṣayitā vahnivedojjhaḥ somavikrayī
English
who is Jestka S&maga ; * an officiating priest, a sister's son, a daughter's son, a son-in-Iaw, a falher-in-law, a maternal uncle, an ascetic, a Brahman who keeps up the five fires, a pupil, a kiflsman ; one who respects his parents. king, a man shoujd employ the Brahmans first mentioned in the þerforrriance of the SrSddha ceremony of his ancestors ; and in the subsidlary rites performed to please his manes he should engage the others. He should not invite at a Sraddhat ceremony a false friend, one who has got ugly nails, one who Í8 eunuch, one who has got black tectll, a ravisher, a Brahman who negleCts the service of fire and secred duty, a vender of Soma plarit, a man accused of any ctime, a thief, a calum- niator, a Bfahman who performs the feligious ceremonies for degraded persons, one who gives Instructions to his servants in sacfed writings; or one who is instructed in it by his servant, the husband of a woman who has been formerly betrothed to another, a man who has neglected his parents, the protector of a Sudra, the husband of a Sudra woman, and aBrahman who worships idols. On the first day of the Sráddha » wise man should invite eminent teachers of Vedas and other Brahmins, and according to their instructions he must settle what is to be dedicatcd to the celestials and what to the manes. And in the company of the Brahmins he should abstairt from anger, continence and hard work. He, who having eaten himself in a Sráddha and fed Bráhmans and appointed them to their sacred offices, is guilty of in- continence, thereby dooms his progenitors to shameful suffer- '"g- Therefofe on the day before tiie Sraddha, eminent nrahmans should be invited. If a Brahman, who has controlled his senses, comes to the house uninvited he should a 'so be enteftained with food. The Brahmins are to be re9 pectfully received with water fdr their feet and after they " av e rinsed their mouths and washed their hands they