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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch.11]
TRANSLATION
In each and every door of the residential houses, auspicious things like curd, unbroken fruits, sugarcane and full water pots with articles for worship, incense and candles were all displayed.
PURPORT
The process of reception according to Vedic rites is not at all dry. The reception was made not simply by decorating the roads and streets as above mentioned, but by worshiping the Lord with requisite ingredients like incense, lamps, flowers, sweets, fruits and other palatable eatables, according to one's capacity. All were offered to the Lord, and the remnants of the foodstuff were distributed amongst the gathering citizens. So it was not like a dry reception of these modern days. Each and every house was ready to receive the Lord in a similar way, and thus each and every house on the roads and streets distributed such remnants of food to the citizens, and therefore the festival was successful. Without distribution of food, no function is complete, and that is the way of Vedic culture.
TEXTS 16-17
निशम्य प्रेष्ठमायान्तं वसुदेवो महामनाः ।  
 अक्रूरश्चोग्रसेनश्च रामश्चाद्भुतविक्रमः ॥१६॥  
 प्रद्युम्नश्चारुदेष्णश्च साम्बो जाम्बवतीसुतः ।  
 प्रहर्षवेगोच्छशितशयनासबभोजनाः ॥१७॥
niśamya preṣṭham āyāntam 
  vasudevo mahāmanāḥ 
  akrūraś cograsenaś ca 
  rāmaś cādbhuta-vikramaḥ 
  pradyumnaś cārudeṣṇaś ca 
  sāmbo jāmbavatī-sutaḥ 
  praharṣa-vegocchaśita- 
  śayanāsana-bhojanāḥ
niśamya—just hearing; preṣṭham—the dearmost; āyāntam—coming home; 
  vasudevaḥ—Vasudeva (the father of Kṛṣṇa); mahā-manāḥ—the magnani- 
  mous; akrūraḥ—Akrūra; ca—and; ugrasenaḥ—Ugrasena; ca—and; rāmaḥ— 
  Balarāma (the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa); ca—and; adbhuta—superhuman;