1. (If) rhinoceros' meat (is given to Brāhmaṇas seated) on (seats covered with) the skin of a rhinoceros, (the Manes are satisfied) for a very long time. 2. (The same effect is obtained) by (offering the) flesh (of the fish called) Śatabali, 3. And by (offering the) meat of the (crane called) Vārdhrāṇasa. 4. Pure, with composed mind and full of ardour, he shall feed Brāhmaṇas who know the Vedas, and who are not connected with him by marriage, blood relationship, by the relationship of sacrificial priest and sacrificer, or by the relationship of (teacher and) pupil. 5. If strangers are deficient in the (requisite) good qualities, even a full brother who possesses them, may be fed (at a Śrāddha). 6. (The admissibility of) pupils (and the rest) has been declared hereby. 7. Now they quote also (in regard to this matter the following verse): 8. The food eaten (at a sacrifice) by persons related to the giver is, indeed, a gift offered to the goblins. It reaches neither the Manes nor the gods. Losing its power (to procure heaven), it errs about in this world as a cow that has lost its calf runs into a strange stable. 9. The meaning (of the verse) is, that gifts which are eaten (and offered) mutually by relations, (and thus go) from one house to the other, peṛṣ in this world. 10. If the good qualities (of several persons who might be invited) are equal, old men and (amongst these) poor ones, who wish to come, have the preference. 11. On the day before (the ceremony) the (first) invitation (must be issued). 12. On the following day the second invitation takes place. 13. (On the same day also takes place) the third invitation (which consists in the call to dinner). 14. Some declare, that every act at a funeral sacrifice must be repeated three times. 15. As (the acts are performed) the first time, so they must be repeated) the second and the third times. 16. When all (the three oblations) have been offered, he shall take a portion of the food of all (three), and shall eat a small mouthful of the remainder in the manner described (in the Gṛhya-sūtra). 17. But the custom of the Northerners is to pour into the hands of the Brāhmaṇas, when they are seated on their seats, (water which has been taken from the water-vessel.) 18. (At the time of the burnt-offering which is offered at the beginning of the dinner) he addresses the Brāhmaṇas with this Mantra: 'Let it be taken out, and let it be offered in the fire.'