Manava Dharmashastra 4.224

4.224

yo brāhmaṇaḥ sarvaguṇopetaḥ | śrotriyagrahaṇasya pradarśanārthatvāt | śrotriyo vidvānvihitadharmānuṣṭhānaparaḥ | kintu kadaryaḥ kṛpaṇo mitraṃ jñātimatithimarthinaṃ nābhinandati na kasmai kiṃcidapi dātumīhate | itaro vārdhuṣirduṣṭakarmā vṛddhijivī | atha vadānya udāraḥ śraddadhāno gṛhāgateṣu parituṣyati śraddhayā bhojanādinā pūjayati | tayoranaṃ devāḥ samaṃ tulyamakalpayanvyavasthāpitavantaḥ | yadi nāmaiko guṇavānsādhucaraṇastathāpi kadaryatayopahataḥ | uktaṃ hi "lobhaḥ sarvaguṇāniva" iti | itaro yadi nāma śraddadhānaḥ tathāpi karmadoṣādapraśastaḥ | evaṃ mīmāṃsitvā vicārya devairvyavasthā kṛtā tulyametaditi |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
What is meant is the Brāhmaṇa endowed with all necessary qualifications,—the term ‘Vedic Scholar’ being meant to be purely illustrative. ‘Vedic Scholar’ means the learned man who performs all the duties that have been laid down for him. If such a person happens to be ‘miserly’—who does not take delight in receiving friends, relations and guests, and who does not wish to give anything to any person.

The other person is the ‘usurer,’ living on usury, and thus engaged in objectional business. If he happens to be ‘liberal,’ noble-minded, endowed with faith, is delighted at the arrival of people at his house, and duly honors them with food and other things.

The food belonging to these two persons the gods have ordained to be ‘equal.’

Even though one of them (the former) is possessed of all good qualities, yet he is condemned by reason of his niggardliness. It has been declared that ‘covetousness spoils all good qualities.’ The other person, even though endowed with due faith, is censured by reason of his objectionable business. Hence, ‘having examined’—duly pondered over the matter—the gods have ordained that the food belonging to the two persons stands on the same footing.—(224)