Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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3.98. An offering made in the mouth-fire of Brahmanas rich in sacred learning and austerities, saves from
misfortune and from great guilt.
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3.99. But let him offer, in accordance with the rule, to a guest who has come (of his own accord) a seat and
water, as well as food, garnished (with seasoning), according to his ability.
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3.100. A Brahmana who stays unhonoured (in the house), takes away (with him) all the spiritual merit even of a
man who subsists by gleaning ears of corn, or offers oblations in five fires.
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3.101. Grass, room (for resting), water, and fourthly a kind word; these (things) never fail in the houses of good
men.
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3.102. But a Brahmana who stays one night only is declared to be a guest (atithi); for because he stays (sthita)
not long (anityam), he is called atithi (a guest).
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3.103. One must not consider as a guest a Brahmana who dwells in the same village, nor one who seeks his
livelihood by social intercourse, even though he has come to a house where (there is) a wife, and where sacred
fires (are kept).
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3.104. Those foolish householders who constantly seek (to live on) the food of others, become, in consequence
of that (baseness), after death the cattle of those who give them food.
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3.105. A guest who is sent by the (setting) sun in the evening, must not be driven away by a householder;
whether he have come at (supper-) time or at an inopportune moment, he must not stay in the house without
entertainment.
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3.106. Let him not eat any (dainty) food which he does not offer to his guest; the hospitable reception of guests
procures wealth, fame, long life, and heavenly bliss.
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