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and in some cases, when it is a private dinner, for the pleasure of the company of the guests, for having a merry time of it, with the expectation of a similar dinner in return. Political and official dinners are necessary items in diplomatic strategy and administrative art. The confidential conversations, the keen observation of the remarks and behaviour of other people, the after-dinner speeches and toasts, sometimes disclose and sometimes conceal the real object of holding such dinners. Pride and jealousy are seldom absent in social dinners.
रागद्वेषासंयममददुःखभयादिकं न यत्कुरुते । द्रव्यं तदेव देयं सुतपः स्वाध्यायवृद्धिकरम् ॥ १७० ॥
170. Only such things should be given (as food) as help in the prosecution of studies, and the due observance of austerities, and which do not bring about fondness, disgust, incontinence, intoxication, pain, fear, etc. पात्रं त्रिभेदमुक्तं संयोगो मोक्षकारणगुणानाम् । अविरतसम्यग्दृष्टिर्विरताविरतश्च सकलविरतश्च ॥ १७१॥
171. The recipients are of three classes, according to their respective possession of qualities leading to Moksha. They are true believers without yows, with partial vows, and with full vows. हिंसायाः पर्यायो लोभोऽत्र निरस्यते यतो दाने । तस्मादतिथिवितरणं हिंसाव्युपरमणमेवेष्टम् ॥ १७२॥ ___172. In making a gift one gets over greed, which is a form of Himsa, and hence gifts made to a worthy recipient amount to a renunciation of Himsa. गृहमागताय गुणिने मधुकरवृत्त्या परान्नपीडयते । वितरति यो नाऽतिथये स कथं न हि लोभवान् भवति ॥१७३॥
173. Why should one be not called greedy if he does not offer (food) to a saint who visits his home, who is well
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