Sūta replied: One should avoid all those persons who have false heretical views and who are ill-behaved. The following too should be avoided in the Śrāddha rite:—the person who puts in a false plaint, a person who censures others, the talebearer, the hypocrite or haughty, persons guilty of minor sins, those who arc particularly guilty of sins, those who employ others to study Vedas on their behalf, those who are greedy and deluded, those who seek (their own) benefit and those who sell the Vedas. There is no provision for substitutes in the study of the Vedas; he who employs any such substitute is a sinner.