अग्निं हुत्वा प्रदायार्घ्यमतिथीन् प्रतिपूज्य च। वानप्रस्थेन धर्मेण स तेषां भोजनं ददौ ॥ प्रथमं चोपविश्याथ धर्मज्ञो मुनिपुङ्गवः। उवाच राममासीनं प्राञ्जलिं धर्मकोविदम्॥ अग्निं हुत्वा प्रदायार्घ्यमतिथिं प्रतिपूजयेत्। अन्यथा खलु काकुत्स्थ तपस्वी समुदाचरन्। दुःसाक्षीव परे लोके स्वानि मांसानि भक्षयेत् ॥
agniṃ hutvā pradāyārghyamatithīn pratipūjya ca| vānaprasthena dharmeṇa sa teṣāṃ bhojanaṃ dadau || prathamaṃ copaviśyātha dharmajño munipuṅgavaḥ| uvāca rāmamāsīnaṃ prāñjaliṃ dharmakovidam|| agniṃ hutvā pradāyārghyamatithiṃ pratipūjayet| anyathā khalu kākutstha tapasvī samudācaran| duḥsākṣīva pare loke svāni māṃsāni bhakṣayet ||
English Meaning
Offering oblations to the fire, and presenting Arghya to the guests, and paying them homage, that ascetic entertained them with food in accordance with the Vānaprastha mode of life; and then first sitting down, that foremost of ascetics, the pious Agastya, addressed Rāma cognizant of righteousness, staying with joined hands, O Kākutstha, if an ascetic acts otherwise (in respect of a guest), he in the next world feeds on his own flesh, like a false witness.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)