One should never eat any food placing it on the naked ground. One should never eat except in a sitting posture. One should never make any noise while eating. The intelligent man should first offer water and then food to one who has become his guest, and after liaving served the guest thus, should then take his meals himself. He who sits down to dinner in a line with friends and himself eats any food without giving thereof to his friends, is said to eat dreadful poison. As regards water and Payasa and flour of fried barley and curds and clarified butter and honey, one should never, after drinking or eating these, offer the residue thereof to others. One should never, O King, eat any foot hesitatingly.
भूमौ सदैव नाश्नीयान्नानासीनो न शब्दवत्॥ तोयपूर्वं प्रदायान्नमतिथिभ्यो विशाम्पते। पश्चाद् भुजीत मेधावी न चाप्यन्यमना नरः॥ समानमेकपक्त्यां तु भोज्यमनं नरेश्वर। विषं हालाहलं भुङ्क्ते योऽप्रदाय सुहृज्जने॥ पानीयं पायसं सक्तून् दधिसर्पिमधून्यपि। निरस्य शेषमन्येषां न प्रदेयं तु कस्यचित्॥ भुजानो मनुजव्याघ्र चैव शङ्कां समाचरेत्।