One should with great care feed them at the time of Shraddha ceremonies, but those among them (Brahmana) that are cursed or fallen, that are either exceeding handsome or excessively black, that have diseased nails, that are lepers, that are deceitful, that are bastards, born of widows or of women with their husbands in exile and that support themselves by the profession of arms, all these should be excluded. A censurable Shraddha consumes the performer as fire consumes the wood.
श्राद्धकाले तु यत्नेन भोक्तव्या ह्यजुगुप्सिताः। दुर्वर्णः कुनखी कुष्ठी मायावी कुण्डगोलकौ॥ वर्जनीयाः प्रयलेन काण्डपृष्ठाश्च देहिनः। जुगुप्सितं हि यच्छ्राद्धं दहत्यग्निरिवेन्धनम्॥