Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 7 - Chapter 1 - Verse 50


Sanskrit:

लुब्धको विपिने कश्चित्पक्षिणां निर्मितोऽन्तक: ।वितत्य जालं विदधे तत्र तत्र प्रलोभयन् ॥ ५० ॥

ITRANS:

lubdhako vipine kaścitpakṣiṇāṁ nirmito ’ntakaḥvitatya jālaṁ vidadhetatra tatra pralobhayan

Translation:

There was once a hunter who lured birds with food and captured them after spreading a net. He lived as if appointed by death personified as the killer of the birds.

Purport:

This is another incident from the histories.