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.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
कपोतश्चात्मजान् बद्धानात्मनोऽप्यधिकान् प्रियान् । भार्यां चात्मसमां दीनो विललापातिदुःखितः
kapotaścātmajān baddhānātmano'pyadhikān priyān | bhāryāṃ cātmasamāṃ dīno vilalāpātiduḥkhitaḥ
SB 11.7.67