mataram -- one's mother; pitaram -- and father; vriddham -- elderly; bharyam -- one's wife; sadhvim -- chaste; sutam -- one's child; sisum -- very young; gurum -- a spiritual master; vipram -- a brahmana; prapannam -- a person who has come to one for shelter; ca -- and; kalpah -- able; abibhrat -- not maintaining; svasan -- breathing; mritah -- dead.

A man who, though able to do so, fails to support his elderly parents, chaste wife, young child or spiritual master, or who neglects a brahmana or anyone who comes to him for shelter, is considered dead, though breathing.