{"id":831,"date":"2010-06-29T20:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/?p=831"},"modified":"2010-06-29T20:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:36:46","slug":"athithi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/2010\/06\/29\/athithi\/","title":{"rendered":"Athithi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guest. In ancient India a welcome for athithis was as important as a yajna. All good karma that a\u00a0 person earned would disappear if a brahmin guest was not given rice, as per Manusmriti Chapter 100 verse 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Manu, a person who visits once in a while is a guest. Anyone who stays in the same region and uses this as an excuse to visit daily need not be deemed as a guest. Irrespective of whether a guest comes in before or after dinner, he should be given a meal. Even if a vaishya or a shudra arrived at a brahmin&#8217;s place as a guest, he should offer them meals along with his servants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest. In ancient India a welcome for athithis was as important as a yajna. All good karma that a\u00a0 person earned would disappear if a brahmin guest was not given rice, as per Manusmriti Chapter 100 verse 3. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/2010\/06\/29\/athithi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}