Manava Dharmashastra 2.184

2.184

satyapyetadguṇayoge gurugṛhe na bhikṣeta | pūrvaṃ kulaṃ vaṃśaḥ tato gurorye pitṛvyādayastebhyo'pi na grahītavyam |
jñātayaḥ, brahmacāriṇaḥ pitṛpakṣāḥ, teṣāṃ kule | bandhuṣu ca mātṛpakṣeṣu mātulādiṣu | naivamabhisambandhaḥ kartavyaḥ–‘gurujñātyādiṣviti' | guroḥ kula iti kula śabdenaiva teṣāṃ saṅgṛhītatvāt |
"kutastarhi bhikṣeta ?”
etadvyatirekeṇānyagehebhyaḥ |
alābhe'sambhave'nyagehānām | sarva eva yadi grāmo gurujñātibandhubhirvyāpto bhavatyanye naiva santi, santo vā'nnaṃ na dadati | eteṣvapi gṛheṣu bhikṣitavyam | anyābhāve prathamaṃ bandhuṃ bhikṣeta, tadabhāve jñāti, tadabhāve gurukulam |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
Even though the Teacher’s family may fulfil the aforesaid conditions, yet ‘he should not beg for food’ from that family. ‘Kula,’ ‘family,’ stands for ‘relations’; hence one should not receive alms from the uncle and other relations of the Teacher.

‘Paternal relations’—from the family of those related to the student on his father’s side.—‘From his maternal relations’—i.e., from his maternal uncle and others.

This verse should not be construed in such a way as to connect the words ‘paternal relations, etc.,’ with the Teacher; since the Teacher’s relations have all been included under the term ‘Teacher’s family.’

“From whom then is he to beg for food?”

From houses other than those here mentioned.

‘When other houses are not available’—i.e., not possible;—when, for instance, the entire village is inhabited either by the Teacher’s family, or by his own paternal and maternal relations; and there are no other families;—or even though they are there, they do not give him alms;—then the student may beg from those just mentioned; when, others are uot available, he should first beg from his maternal relations; if these latter be not available, then from his paternal relations; and when even these arc not available, then from the Teacher’s family.—(184)