Markandeyapurana 41.4

41.4

cakṣuḥ pūtaṃ nyasetpādaṃ vastrapūtaṃ jalaṃ pibet /
satyapūtāṃ vadedvāṇīṃ buddhipūtañca cintayet //

He should plant his foot after it is purified by his eye; he should drink water that has been purified through cloth; he should use speech that is purified with truth; and he should meditate on what is purified by the intellect. The yogi should nowhere become a guest, nor attend śrāddhas, or sacrifices, pilgrimages to the gods, or festivals, nor visit the banker for the sake of any advantage. The yogi should roam about for alms among what is flung away, among what is smokeless, where the charcoal is extinguished, among all people who have eaten, but not constantly among all the three. The yogi should not move about occupied in religious meditation and spoiling the path of the good, so as that folk should despise him or treat him with disrespect. He should seek his alms among house-holders, and at the houses of vagrant mendicants:[1] his livelihood is declared to be the best and first one. Also the ascetic should ever resort to modest, faithful, tranquil and high-souled brahman householders who are learned in the Vedas; above and after them, to uncorrupt and non-outcasted men. The practice of seeking alms among men of no caste is the last livelihood he should wish for.