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3.147. This is the chief rule (to be followed) in offering sacrifices to the gods and manes; know that the virtuous
always observe the following subsidiary rule.
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3.148. One may also entertain (on such occasions) one’s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister’s son, a
father-in-law, one’s teacher, a daughter’s son, a daughter’s husband, a cognate kinsman, one’s own officiating
priest or a man for whom one offers sacrifices.
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3.149. For a rite sacred to the gods, he who knows the law will not make (too close) inquiries regarding an
(invited) Brahmana; but when one performs a ceremony in honour of the manes, one must carefully examine
(the qualities and parentage of the guest).
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3.150. Manu has declared that those Brahmanas who are thieves, outcasts, eunuchs, or atheists are unworthy (to
partake) of oblations to the gods and manes.
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3.151. 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).
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3.152. 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.
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3.153. A paid servant of a village or of a king, man with deformed nails or black teeth, one who opposes his
teacher, one who has forsaken the sacred fire, and a usurer;
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3.154. One suffering from consumption, one who subsists by tending cattle, a younger brother who marries or
kindles the sacred fire before the elder, one who neglects the five great sacrifices, an enemy of the Brahmana
race, an elder brother who marries or kindles the sacred fire after the younger, and one who belongs to a
company or corporation,
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3.155. An actor or singer, one who has broken the vow of studentship, one whose (only or first) wife is a Sudra
female, the son of a remarried woman, a one-eyed man, and he in whose house a paramour of his wife (resides);
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3.156. He who teaches for a stipulated fee and he who is taught on that condition, he who instructs Sudra pupils
and he whose teacher is a Sudra, he who speaks rudely, the son of an adulteress, and the son of a widow,