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The Payo-vrata Process of Worship
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gṛheṣu —at home;  yeṣu —which;  atithayaḥ —uninvited guests;  na —not;  arcitāḥ —welcomed;  salilaiḥ api —even by offering a glass of water;  yadi —if;  niryānti —they go away;  te —such household life;  nūnam —indeed;  pheru-rāja —of jackals;  gṛha —the homes;  upamāḥ —like.
TRANSLATION
Homes from which guests go away without having been received even with an offering of a little water are like those holes in the field which are the homes of jackals.
PURPORT
In a field there may be holes made by snakes and mice, but when there are very big holes, it may be supposed that jackals live there. Certainly no one goes to take shelter in such homes. Thus the homes of human beings where  atithis , uninvited guests, are not properly received are like the homes of jackals.
TEXT 8
अप्यग्रयस्तु वेलायां न हुता हविषा सति । त्वयोद्विग्रधिया भद्रे प्रोषिते मयि कर्हिचित् ॥ ८ ॥
apy agnayas tu velāyām   na hutā haviṣā sati   tvayodvigna-dhiyā bhadre   proṣite mayi karhicit
api —whether;  agnayaḥ —fires;  tu —indeed;  velāyām —in the fire sacrifice;  na —not;  hutāḥ —offered;  haviṣā —by ghee;  sati —O chaste woman;  tvayā —by you;  udvigna-dhiyā —because of some anxiety;  bhadre —O auspicious woman;  proṣite —was away from home;  mayi —when I;  karhicit —sometimes.
TRANSLATION
O chaste and auspicious woman, when I left home for other places, were you in so much anxiety that you did not offer oblations of ghee into the fire?