Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 67
Sanskrit:
कपोत: स्वात्मजान् बद्धानात्मनोऽप्यधिकान् प्रियान् ।भार्यां चात्मसमां दीनो विललापातिदु:खित: ॥ ६७ ॥
ITRANS:
kapotaḥ svātmajān baddhānātmano ’py adhikān priyānbhāryāṁ cātma-samāṁ dīnovilalāpāti-duḥkhitaḥ
Translation:
Seeing his own children, who were more dear to him than life itself, fatally bound in the hunter’s net along with his dearmost wife, whom he considered equal in every way to himself, the poor male pigeon began to lament wretchedly.