Shatakatraya 3.23

3.23

puṇye grāme vane vā mahati sita-paṭac-channa-pālī kapāliṃ
hy ādāya nyāya-garbha-dvija-huta-huta-bhug dhūma-dhūmropakaṇṭhe |
dvāraṃ dvāraṃ praviṣṭo varam udara-darī-pūraṇāya kṣudhārto
mānī prāṇaiḥ sanātho na punar anudinaṃ tulya-kulyesu dīnaḥ ||

In a sacred village or a great forest, taking a begging-bowl whose rim is covered with a white cloth, / in neighborhoods smoky with the oblations to the fire offered by righteous twice-born men, / it is better for a starving, proud man, sustained by his breath of life, / to enter door after door to fill the cave of his belly, but never to live wretchedly day after day among his peers.