Beholding the birds, the sinful person, though he himself himself was in better circumstances, picked her up and put her in a cage. Himself afflicted with distress, he did not hesitate to overwhelm a fellow-creature with painful affliction.
दृष्ट्वाऽऽर्तोऽपि हि पापात्मा स तां पञ्जरकेऽक्षिपत्। स्वयं दुःखाभिभूतोऽपि दुःखमेवाकरोत् परे॥ पापात्मा पापकारित्वात् पापमेव चकार सः।