Markandeyapurana 28.18

28.18

tato 'samānarṣikulāṃ tulyāṃ bhāryāmarogiṇīm /
udvahennyāyato 'vyaṅgāṃ gṛhasthāśramakāraṇāt //

“Next when he has desisted therefrom, through desire for a gṛhastha’s status, let him then rightly marry a wife, sprung from the family of a different[1] Ṛṣi, his equal, free from sickness, not deformed, for the sake of a gṛhastha’s status. And having gained money by his own toū, let him duly please the pitṛs, gods and guests by faith; and also nourish those who resort to him, his dependants and children, and his female relatives, and the afflicted, the blind, and the outcast, the birds and the cattle,[2] to the utmost of his power with gifts of food. This is the duty of a gṛhastha; sexual intercourse also at the proper season: but he should not, to the utmost of his power, neglect the performance of the five sacrifices. And let the man himself, being zealous to the best of his power, together with his dependants, eat the remains of the food consumed by the pitṛs, the gods, the guests and paternal kinsmen.