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3.137. Know that he whose father knows the Veda, is the more venerable one (of the two); yet the other one is
worthy of honour, because respect is due to the Veda (which he has learned).
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3.138. Let him not entertain a personal friend at a funeral sacrifice; he may gain his affection by (other)
valuable gifts; let him feed at a Sraddha a Brahmana whom he considers neither as a foe nor as a friend.
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3.139. He who performs funeral sacrifices and offerings to the gods chiefly for the sake of (gaining) friends,
reaps after death no reward for Sraddhas and sacrifices.
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3.140. That meanest among twice-born men who in his folly contracts friendships through a funeral sacrifice,
loses heaven, because he performed a Sraddha for the sake of friendship.
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3.141. A gift (of food) by twice-born men, consumed with (friends and relatives), is said to be offered to the
Pisakas; it remains in this (world) alone like a blind cow in one stable.
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3.142. As a husbandman reaps no harvest when he has sown the seed in barren soil, even so the giver of
sacrificial food gains no reward if he presented it to a man unacquainted with the Rikas.
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3.143. But a present made in accordance with the rules to a learned man, makes the giver and the recipient
partakers of rewards both in this (life) and after death.
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3.144. (If no learned Brahmana be at hand), he may rather honour a (virtuous) friend than an enemy, though the
latter may be qualified (by learning and so forth); for sacrificial food, eaten by a foe, bears no reward after
death.
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3.145. Let him (take) pains (to) feed at a Sraddha an adherent of the Rig-veda who has studied one entire
(recension of that) Veda, or a follower of the Yagur-veda who has finished one Sakha, or a singer of Samans
who (likewise) has completed (the study of an entire recension).
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3.146. If one of these three dines, duly honoured, at a funeral sacrifice, the ancestors of him (who gives the
feast), as far as the seventh person, will be satisfied for a very long time.
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