Manava Dharmashastra 3.229

3.229

varāhaḥ śūkaraḥ | sa ca grāmyaḥ | svasannidhānato nekṣeranniti yadyapi śrutam tathāpi tatpradeśasannidhimeva śiṣṭā nānumanyante | tathā ca ‘ghrāṇena śūkara' ityādi kriyāntaramarthavādena śrūyate | na cānīkṣamāṇasya ghrāṇaṃ saṃbhavati | sannihitānāṃ tu svarūpānuvādo'yam | sūkaro vijighrati | kukkuṭaḥ pakṣānuddhunoti | tasmātpariśrite dadyāditi vidhiḥ | prayojanametaddoṣabhāve'pariśrite'pi dadyāt | ṣaṇḍho napuṃsakaḥ |

The Cāṇdāla, the pig, the cock, as also the dog, the unclean woman and the eunuch should not look at the Brāhmaṇas while eating.—(239)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Pig’—the village-hog.

Though it has been declared that ‘these shall not look at dose quarters,’ yet what the cultured people avoid is these being near the place. In verse 241 below also, the mention of an act (other than seeing) in the passage ‘the pig spoils the food by smelling’ is a purely deprecatory supplement. Certainly, there can be no smelling by one who does not see.

In fact, the verse merely describes the things that may happen to be near by; what is meant is the Injunction that, since, as a rule, the pig is prone to sniff at the food, and the cock is prone to flapping its wings, and so forth,—therefore, one should feed the Brāhmaṇas in a sheltered place; and the purpose served by the present verse is that it implies that, where there is no danger of such untoward happenings, the feeding may be done in an unsheltered place also.

‘Eunuch’—One without the signs of masculinity.—(239)