[vairagya-23]
पुण्ये ग्रामे वने वा महति सितपटच्छन्नपालिं कपालिंह्यादाय न्यायगर्भदिविजहुतहुतभुग्धूमधूम्रोपकण्ठे ।दृवारं द्वारं प्रविष्ठो वरमुदरदरीपूरणाय क्षुदार्थोमानी प्राणैः सनाथो न पुनरनुदिनं तुल्यकुल्येषु दीनः ॥२३॥puṇye grāme vane vā mahati sitapaṭacchannapāliṃ kapāliṃhyādāya nyāyagarbhadivijahutahutabhugdhūmadhūmropakaṇṭhe |dṛvāraṃ dvāraṃ praviṣṭho varamudaradarīpūraṇāya kṣudārthomānī prāṇaiḥ sanātho na punaranudinaṃ tulyakulyeṣu dīnaḥ ||23||
Translation
It is better for a hungry man with self-respect, to hold on to his lives and beg from door to door to satiate his hunger, in the sacred villages or wide woodlands at the outskirts which have turned grey by the smoke emanating from the fire into which the Brahmins who have mastered all the Vedas offer oblations, holding a begging bowl (hiding it) with its edge covered by the white cloth; than move pathetically among people of his own family and beg for sustenance. ॥ 23 ॥