The hawk said I do not, O king, eat the flesh of the boar or the ox or of any of the various kinds of fowl. What need have I of food of this or that kind? My business is with that food which has been eternally ordained for beings of my order? Hawks feed on pigeons. This is the eternal ordinance.
श्येन उवाच न वराहं न चोक्षाणं न चान्यान् विविधान् द्विजान्। भक्षयामि महाराज किमन्यायेन तेन मे॥ यस्तु मे विहितो भक्ष्यः स्वयं देवैः सनातनः। श्येनाः कपोतान् खादन्ति स्थितिरेषा सनातनी॥