Miscellaneous Topics : Qualifications of a Brahmana - Verse 23-27

One should invite these for the Sraddha rite : Those who have studied all the Vedas and who have performed all rites; the Brahmanas who are the sanctifiers of the row; important Brahmanas who know the Bhasyas ( Glosses on Aphorisms) ; those who regularly study Grammar; those who study Puranas and DharmaSastras; those who are conversant with the three-Naciketas-Vidyas; the worshippers of five fires; the Trisuparnas, the knowers of the six ancillary subjects of the Vedas; a son of the Brahma form of marriage ; a master of Vedic Prosody (or chanter of the Vedas) ; a singer of the Jycsfha Soman ; one who has taken baths in sacred waters (at holy places); those who have taken part in important Yajflas and taken the concluding (Avabhrtha ) ablutions; those who observe rites immediately; those who strictly adhere to their own duties; those who are not wrathful and those who are always calm and quiescent. And those who perpetually observe the ten meritorious deeds shall also be invited.