The master should offer the funeral cake to the sonless Shudra servant. The weak and the old amongst them should be maintained. The Shudra should never leave his master whatever may be the miseries he may suffer from.
देयः पिण्डोऽनपत्याय भर्तव्यौ वृद्धदुर्बलौ॥ शूद्रेण तु न हातव्यो भर्ता कस्याञ्चिदापदि।