Seeing that fowler whose profession was to kill birds, the pigeon honoured him scrupulously according to scriptural rites.
तं वै शाकुनिकं दृष्ट्वा विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा। स पक्षी पूजयामास यत्नात् तं पक्षिजीविनम्॥