kapotah svatmajan baddhan

 atmano ’py adhikan priyan

bharyam catma-samam dino

 vilalapati-duhkhitah

 

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.