Kurma Purana

असंबन्धी च विज्ञेयो ब्राह्मणः पङ्क्तिपावनः

A Brahmin who is unattached is to be known as a purifier of the dining line.

अलाभे नैष्ठिकं दान्तमुपकुर्वाणकं तथा

If none are found, one should feed a Naiṣṭhika, a restrained one, or an Upakurvāṇa.

सर्वालाभे साधकं वा गृहस्थमपि भोजयेत्

If none at all are available, one may feed even a householder who is striving.

फलं वेदविदां तस्य सहस्रादतिरिच्यते

The fruit for those who know the Vedas exceeds that of giving a thousandfold.

भोजयेद् हव्यकव्येषु अलाभादितरान् द्विजान्

One should feed other twice-borns in offerings of oblations if the others are not found.

अनुकल्पस्त्वयं ज्ञेयः सदा सद्भिरनुष्ठितः

This is to be known as the substitute procedure, always practiced by the virtuous.

दौहित्रं विट्पतिं बन्धुमृत्विग्याज्यौ च भोजयेत्

One should feed the daughter's son, the lord of speech, a relative, the officiating priest, and the sacrificer.

पैशाची दक्षिणा सा हि नैवामुत्र फलप्रदा

That southern offering is demonic; it does not yield fruit in the next world.

द्विषता हि हविर्भुक्तं भवति प्रेत्य निष्फलम्

Indeed, oblations eaten by an enemy become fruitless after death.

तस्मै हव्यं न दातव्यं न हि भस्मनि हूयते

One should not offer oblations to him, for indeed, offerings are not poured into ashes.

तथानृचे हविर्दत्त्वा न दाता लभते फलम्

Likewise, if an oblation is given to one who does not recite the Ṛc, the giver does not obtain the fruit.

तावतो ग्रसते प्रेत्य दीप्तान् स्थूलांस्त्वयोगुडान्

After death, he consumes as many blazing, coarse lumps as the number of such acts.

यत्रैते भुञ्जते हव्यं तद् भवेदासुर द्विजाः

Where these (unworthy ones) consume the offering, O twice-born, that becomes demonic.

स वै दुर्ब्राह्मणो नार्हः श्राद्धादिषु कदाचन

Such a wicked brāhmaṇa is never fit for śrāddha or similar rites.

बधबन्धोपजीवी च षडेते ब्रह्मबन्धवः

One who lives by slaughter or bondage—these six are merely brāhmaṇa-bandhus.

वेदविक्रायिणो ह्येते श्राद्धादिषु विगर्हिताः

Those who sell the Veda are indeed condemned in śrāddha and similar rites.

असमानान् याजयन्ति पतितास्ते प्रकीर्तिताः

Those who officiate for the unqualified are declared fallen.

अधीयते तथा वेदान् पतितास्ते प्रकीर्तिताः

Likewise, those who teach the Vedas (to the unqualified) are declared fallen.

कापालिकाः पाशुपताः पाषण्डा ये च तद्विधाः

Kāpālikas, Pāśupatas, Pāṣaṇḍas, and others of that kind—

न तस्य तद् भवेच्छ्राद्धं प्रेत्य चेह फलप्रदम्

For him, that śrāddha does not yield results here or after death.

मिथ्याश्रमी च ते विप्रा विज्ञेयाः पङ्क्तिदूषकाः

Those brāhmaṇas who falsely claim an āśrama should be known as defilers of the line.

विद्धप्रजननश्चैव स्तेनः क्लीबो ऽथ नास्तिकः

One who begets children with a widow, a thief, an impotent man, or an atheist—

आगारदाही कुण्डाशी सोमविक्रयिणो द्विजाः

A house-burner, one who eats from a pit, and twice-born who sell Soma—

पौनर्भवः कुसीदी च तथा नक्षत्रदर्शकः

One born of remarriage, a usurer, and likewise an astrologer—

हीनाङ्गश्चातिरिक्ताङ्गो ह्यवकीर्णिस्तथैव च

One with a defective or excessive limb, and one who has scattered his seed—

मित्रध्रुक् पिशुनश्चैव नित्यं भार्यानुवर्तकः

A betrayer of friends, a slanderer, and one always subservient to his wife—

गोत्रभिद् भ्रष्टशौचश्च काण्डस्पृष्टस्तथैव च

One who breaks the lineage, who has lost purity, or who has touched a stalk (of barley or sacrificial grass)—

समुद्रयायी कृतहा तथा समयभेदकः

One who travels across the sea, a murderer, and one who breaks agreements—

द्विजनिन्दारतश्चैते वर्ज्याः श्राद्धादिकर्मसु

And those who delight in reviling twice-borns—these are to be excluded from śrāddha and similar rites.