Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.20

v2.c20.20

² If a guest goes away disappointed or unsatisfied, he leaves his evil deed behind him there, and takes with him instead the good works of the master of the house. This is the teaching of the MBh., and e.g. Viṣṇupur., vol. iii, 94, 123; Mārk.-Pur., xxix, 31, 32; Çivapurāṇa, xlii, 23; Viṣṇusmṛti, lxvii, 33, and Jolly’s note thereon in SBE, vii, p. 215. Cp. Manu, iii, 100, and especially my Altind. Rechts-schriften, p. 334 f.