He, whose water, honey, curds and kine, one versed in the Mantras (Brahmana) does not accept either owing to fear (on the part of the Brahmana) or to unwillingness and miserliness (on the part of the host), lives in vain; which the wise have declared.
यस्योदकं मधुपर्कं च गां च न मन्त्रवित् प्रतिगृह्णाति गेहे। लोभाद् भयादथ कार्पण्यतो वा तस्यानर्थं जीवितमाहुरायः॥