The Test for Eligibity of a Brahmana - Verse 111

34-38, Mbh. Anuidsana 90.6-11, Mt.P. 16.14-17, BM.P. 220.127-135, NP. 1. 30-4, KP. II. 21.27-46 to mention a few. Apart from the textual similarity, the lists are interesting from a sociological point of view. They indicate what class of persons, vocations, ways of life were disrespected by the elites of those times. Sects which insist on long fasts ( e.g. Jainas) , Sarikliyas (who were originally atheists), non-Brahmanical mendicants like Bauddhas, Jainas, persons not following the vocations of their castes, are regarded as unworthy of being invited to a Sraddha or receiving religious gifts ( d&na).