Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 71


Sanskrit:

तांस्तथैवावृतान् शिग्भिर्मृत्युग्रस्तान् विचेष्टत: ।स्वयं च कृपण: शिक्षु पश्यन्नप्यबुधोऽपतत् ॥ ७१ ॥

ITRANS:

tāṁs tathaivāvṛtān śigbhirmṛtyu-grastān viceṣṭataḥsvayaṁ ca kṛpaṇaḥ śikṣupaśyann apy abudho ’patat

Translation:

As the father pigeon wretchedly stared at his poor children trapped in the net and on the verge of death, pathetically struggling to free themselves, his mind went blank, and thus he himself fell into the hunter’s net.

Purport: