Manava Dharmashastra 1.101

1.101

yatparagṛha ātithyādirūpeṇa bhuṅkte tadātmīyameva | naivaṃ mantavyaṃ parapākeneti | svaṃ vaste yācitvā'yācitvā vā vastraṃ labhate nāsau tasya lābhāya, api tu svakasyācchādane viniyogaḥ | tiṣṭhatu tāvadātmopayogi yad gṛhṇāti tatra prabhutvam | yadanyebhyo dadāti parakīyaṃ tadapi tasya nānucitam | ānṛśaṃsyaṃ kāruṇyam | tadīyayā mahāsattvatayā pṛthivyāṃ rājānaḥ svāni dhanānyupayuñjate | anyathā yadyasāvicchet 'ahametadādāya svakārye viniyuñjīyeti' tadā sarve nirdhanāḥ nirupabhogāḥ syuḥ |

What the Brāhmana eats is his own; his own what he wears and his own also what he gives; it ts due to the good will of the Brāhmaṇa that other people enjoy (things). (101).

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
What the Brāhmaṇa eats as a guest in the house of others is really his own; it should not be thought that he is receiving food from another person’s kitchen.—Similarly ‘what he wears is his own’;—i.e., when he obtains clothing, either by begging or otherwise, it does not mean that he has acquired it from others; what it means is that he is employing what is his own in the covering of his body.—What he obtains for his own use, in that he may lie exercising his own right of possession; hut when he gives away to people what belongs to others, this also is nothing wrong for him; it is only his good will, benevolence. It is by reason of the large-heartedness of the Brāhmaṇa that Kings on earth enjoy their possessions; otherwise, if the Brāhmaṇa were to wish—‘I should take all this and apply it to my own use,’—then all others would become penniless, having nothing that they could use for their own benefit.—(101)