Manu 3.142
यथा-इरिणे बीजम् उप्त्वा) न वप्ता लभते) फलम् । तथा-अनृचे हविर् दत्त्वा न दाता लभते) फलम् ॥
yathā-iriṇe bījam uptvā) na vaptā labhate) phalam | tathā-an.ṛce havir dattvā na dātā labhate) phalam ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
As a husbandman reaps no harvest when he has sown the seed in barren soil, even so the giver of sacrificial food gains no reward if he presented it to a man unacquainted with the Rikas.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.