Offering oblations to the fire, and presenting Arghya to the guests, and paying them homage, that ascetic entertained them with food in accordance with the Vānaprastha mode of life; and then first sitting down, that foremost of ascetics, the pious Agastya, addressed Rāma cognizant of righteousness, staying with joined hands, O Kākutstha, if an ascetic acts otherwise (in respect of a guest), he in the next world feeds on his own flesh, like a false witness.
अग्निं हुत्वा प्रदायार्घ्यमतिथीन् प्रतिपूज्य च। वानप्रस्थेन धर्मेण स तेषां भोजनं ददौ ॥ प्रथमं चोपविश्याथ धर्मज्ञो मुनिपुङ्गवः। उवाच राममासीनं प्राञ्जलिं धर्मकोविदम्॥ अग्निं हुत्वा प्रदायार्घ्यमतिथिं प्रतिपूजयेत्। अन्यथा खलु काकुत्स्थ तपस्वी समुदाचरन्। दुःसाक्षीव परे लोके स्वानि मांसानि भक्षयेत् ॥