Rasarnavasudhakara 2.25

2.25

From destitution, as in:
"If a high-minded man did not see his wretched housewife,
her worn-out garment tugged by their own children with wretched faces
crying in hunger, her cooking-pot empty of grain,
what man of self-respect would say 'Give!' for the sake of his cursed belly,
his syllables faltering, dropping, breaking, and melting away in fear of the wretchedness of begging?"