Manava Dharmashastra 3.180

3.180

ketita upanimantritaḥ | havye kavye daive pitrye ca | aṅgīkṛtya nimantraṇamabhyupagamya śrāddhabhojanam | yadi kathaṃcidatikrāmati, bhojanakāle na saṃnidhīyate, brahmacaryaṃ ca na rakṣati, tadā sūkaratāṃ gacchati sa brāhmaṇaḥ | kathaṃcitkāmādvismṛtya vā | yathānyāyamiti vṛttapūraṇam | anye tvāhuḥ | prārthyamānasyānābhyupagama eva 'atikramaḥ' | tathā ca śrāddhakalpe uktam “aninditenāmantrito nātikrāmet” iti | etaccāyuktam | lipsayā pravṛttiḥ śrāddhe, na punaḥ śāstrataḥ | tatrāsatyāṃ lipsāyāṃ yadi nāṅgīkaroti tadā ko doṣaḥ |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Ketitaḥ’ means invited.

‘Havye kavye’—at the rite in honour of Gods, and at the rite in honour of the Pitṛs. Having accepted the invitation and promised to eat,—if ‘somehow he neglects it,’—i.e., does not present himself at the time of eating, or, if he does not maintain continence,—then such a Brāhmaṇa ‘becomes a hog.’

‘Somehow’—i.e., either intentionally, or through lapse of memory.

‘Duly’—this has been added for the purpose of filling up the verse.

Others have held that the ‘neglect’ here stands for non-acceptance of the invitation; according to what has been said in the Śrāddhakalpa—‘one should not fail to accept the invitation of a man free from all blame.’