Mahabharata · Chapter 12.146
tataḥ sa lubdhakaḥ paśyankṣudhayā'pi pariplutaḥ /
kapotamagnipatitaṃ vākyaṃ punaruvāca ha //
kimīdṛśaṃ nṛśaṃsena mayā kṛtamabuddhinā / bhaviṣyati hi me nityaṃ pātakaṃ bhuvi jīvataḥ /
sa vinindaṃstathā'tmānaṃ punaḥ punaruvāca ha //
dhiṅbhāmastu sudurbuddhiṃ sadā nikṛtiniścayam /
śubhaṃ karma parityajya so'haṃ śakunilubdhakaḥ //
nṛśaṃsasya mamādyāyaṃ pratyādeśo na saṃśayaḥ /
dattaḥ svamāṃsaṃ dahatā kapotena mahātmanā //
sohaṃ tyakṣye priyānprāṇānputrāndārānvisṛjya ca /
upadiṣṭo hi me dharmaḥ kapotenātra dharmiṇā //
adyaprabhuti dehaṃ svaṃ sarvabhogairvivarjitam /
yathā svalpaṃ saro grīṣme śoṣayiṣyāmmahaṃ tathā //
kṣutpipāsātapasahaḥ kṛśo dhramanisantataḥ /
upavāsairbahuvidhaiścariṣye pāralaukikam //
aho dehapradānena darśitā'tithipūjanā /
tasmāddharmaṃ cariṣyāmi dharmo hi paramā gatiḥ //
dṛṣṭo dharmo hi dharmiṣṭhe yādṛśo vihagottame /
evamuktvā viniścitya raudrakarmā sa lubdhakaḥ //
mahāprasthānamāśritya prayayau saṃśitavrataḥ //
tato yaṣṭiṃ śalākāṃ ca dhārakaṃ pañjaraṃ tathā /
tāṃ ca baddhāṃ kapotīṃ sa pramucya visasarja ha //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0