Mahārāja Bharata continued to speak like a madman. Seeing above his head the dark marks on the rising moon, which resembled a deer, he said: Can it be that the moon, who is so kind to an unhappy man, might also be kind upon my deer, knowing that it has strayed from home and has become motherless? This moon has given the deer shelter near itself just to protect it from the fearful attacks of a lion.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
अपि स्विदसौ भगवानुडुपतिरेनं मृगपतिभया- न्मृतमातरं मृगबालकं स्वाश्रमपरिभ्रष्टमनुकम्पया कृपणजनवत्सलः परिपाति
api svidasau bhagavānuḍupatirenaṃ mṛgapatibhayā- nmṛtamātaraṃ mṛgabālakaṃ svāśramaparibhraṣṭamanukampayā kṛpaṇajanavatsalaḥ paripāti
SB 5.8.24