History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.118

v3.c40.118

Although numerous rules are laid down about the persons at whose house food may or may not be taken, the ideal placed before householders was that they should not as far as possible eat at the houses of others and should only do so if they are invited by a blameless person (vide Gaut. 17. 8, Manu III. 104, Yāj. I. 112). Manu III. 104 holds out the threat that those who constantly seek to subsist on the food given by others become after death the cattle of those who give them food.