Shantikamalakara 2.6

2.6

'One should feed one brahmin with food at each single oblation in the fire oblation; / an above-average [sacrificer should feed] one brahmin at every half, or a middling one at a hundred oblations; / or even the lowest should feed one at a thousand oblations. / Otherwise, that realm quickly burns; there is no doubt about this. / Therefore, one who is unable to give a priestly gift or food / should satisfy the foremost preceptors with recitations, obeisances, and hymns of praise.' / In the Skandapurāṇa: / 'Just as the planet, so is the twice-born who knows the rite and is a master of the Vedas; / one should satisfy him with soft garments and the like, and dismiss him when he is satisfied.'