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ŚB 11.7.63

Devanagari

द‍ृष्ट्वा तान् लुब्धक: कश्चिद् यद‍ृच्छातो वनेचर: ।
जगृहे जालमातत्य चरत: स्वालयान्तिके ॥ ६३ ॥

Text

dṛṣṭvā tān lubdhakaḥ kaścid
yadṛcchāto vane-caraḥ
jagṛhe jālam ātatya
carataḥ svālayāntike

Synonyms

dṛṣṭvā — seeing; tān — them, the young birds; lubdhakaḥ — hunter; kaścit — a certain; yadṛcchātaḥ — at random; vane — in the forest; caraḥ — passing; jagṛhe — he seized; jālam — his net; ātatya — having spread out; carataḥ — who were moving about; sva-ālaya-antike — in the vicinity of their own home.

Translation

At that time a certain hunter who happened to be wandering through the forest saw the young pigeons moving about near their nest. Spreading out his net he captured them all.