Manava Dharmashastra 3.101

3.101

tatrātitherdharmaḥ- coṇaṇyodanatvaṃ paragrāmavāso bhojanakālopasthānam-tādṛśena rūpeṇa yadi kṣatriyo gṛhamāgato bhavati, tadā tamapi bhojayet | bhojanavacanādanyā paricaryā nivartate | priyahitavacanaṃ tvaviśeṣeṇa gṛhābhyāgatasya vihitam | ayaṃ ca tasya bhojanasya kālaḥ | bhuktavatsu vipreṣu brāhmaṇeṣvanatithiṣu vā gṛhasaṃnihiteṣu prathamaṃbhojiṣu, tataḥ sa bhojayitavyaḥ | kāmamiti niyamābhāvamāha | kāmyo'yaṃ vidhirna nitya ityarthaḥ | kāmyaścānirdiṣṭaviśeṣaphaleṣu svargaḥ | yadi vā "dhanyaṃ yaśasyam" ityādyatra saṃbandhanīyam |

If a Kṣatriya should happen to come to one’s house in the character of a guest, one may feed him also, after the Brāhmaṇas have eaten.—(111)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The ‘character’ of the guest consists of—(a) having run short of food during the journey, (b) bring in a strange village and (c) arriving at the time of eating. In this character, if a Kṣatriya happen to come to one’s house, then the householder shall feed him also.

By specifically mentioning ‘feeding,’ the other factors of the ‘honouring’ of guests become precluded; but the addressing of agreeable and wholesome words has been generally enjoined as to be addressed equally to everyone coming to one’s house. The proper time for feeding him is this:—he should be fed after the Brāhmaṇas—guests as well as such non-guests as are entitled to eat first—have eaten.

‘May’—this shows the absence of compulsion; the sense being that what is here laid down is voluntary, not obligatory. And since the reward has not been mentioned, it follows that Heaven is the reward, as it is in the case of all those acts whose rewards are not specifically mentioned. Or, we might connect with this the phrase ‘conducive to wealth, fame, etc.’ (of verse 106).—(111)