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ceremony in honour of the manes, one must carefully examine (the qualities and parentage of the guest).
150. Manu has declared that those Brahmanas who are thieves, outcasts, eunuchs, or atheists are unworthy (to partake) of oblations to the gods and manes.
151. Let him not entertain at a Sraddha one who wears his hair in braids (a student), one who has not studied (the Veda), one afflicted with a skin disease, a gambler, nor those who sacrifice for a multitude (of sacrificers).
152. Physicians, temple-priests, sellers of meat, and those who subsist by shop-keeping must be avoided at sacrifices offered to the gods and to the manes.
153. A paid servant of a village or of a king, a man with deformed nails or black teeth, one who opposes his teacher, one who has forsaken the sacred fire, and a usurer;
154. One suffering from consumption, one who subsists by tending cattle, a younger brother who
15-182. Ấp. II, I7, 2I; Gaut. XV, 16–19, 30-31; Vas. XI, 19; Vi. LXXXII, 3-30; Yâgñ. I, 222-224.
150. For the term nâstikavritti, atheist,' Medh. proposes, besides the explanation given above, the other equally possible one,' he who derives his livelihood from atheists.'
151. Anadhiyanam, one who has not studied the Veda,' i.e. one who has been initiated only, but has not studied' (Kull.), or ‘one who has not mastered the Veda' (Medh.), or one who has left off studying' (Nar.). Medh. and Nand. read durvâlam for durbalam,
afflicted with a skin-disease,' and the former explains his var. lect. by a bald or a red-haired man.' "Those who sacrifice for a multitude,' i.e. who offer the (forbidden) Ahîna sacrifices, for on that occasion there are many sacrificers' (Når.).
154. Nirâkritih, one who neglects the five great sacrifices' (Medh.,
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