When the smoke has ceased to curl upwards from a house, when the husking machine has ceased to play, when the hearthfire has been put out, when all the inmates have taken their food, when dishes are no longer carried from room to room when mendicants have ceased to walk the streets, it is then that the man who is devoted to the Religion of Truth and tranquillity of soul, wishing to have a guest, should eat what remnant of food may still remain in the house. By acting thus, one becomes a practiser of the Religion of the Munis.
विधूमे सन्नमुसले व्यङ्गारे भुक्तवज्जने। अतीतपात्रसंचारे काले विगतभिक्षुके॥ अतिथिं कांक्षमाणो वै शेषान्नकृतभोजनः। सत्यधर्मरतः शान्तो मुनिधर्मेण युज्यते॥