Skandapurana 7.18.89_99

7.18.89_99

yaśca jātyā bhaved vipro yaśca15 syād vedapāragaḥ .
tayostrāṇe vadhe cāpi16 puṇyapāpe17 same18 smṛte19 .. 17. .
jātyā ca yo bhavedvipraḥ sarvāgamaviśāradaḥ20 .
tapaśaucasamāyuktastryavadātaḥ sa ucyate . . 18 . .
tādṛśaṃ bhojayecchrāddhe daive karmaṇi vāpi21 yaḥ .
akṣayaṃ tad bhavet tasya vyavadātasya tarpaṇāt ..1 9..

He who is a vipra by birth and he who has mastered the Veda— / in protecting them and in slaying them, the merit and sin are declared to be equal. // 17
And the vipra who is one by birth, proficient in all the āgamas, / endowed with austerity and purity, is called 'thrice-pure.' // 18
Whoever feeds such a one in an ancestral rite or in a rite for the gods— / that becomes inexhaustible for him through the satiation of that purified one. // 19