SB 4.26.9
Devanāgarī
तत्र निर्भिन्नगात्राणां चित्रवाजै: शिलीमुखै: । विप्लवोऽभूद्दु:खितानां दु:सह: करुणात्मनाम् ॥ ९ ॥
Text
tatra nirbhinna-gātrāṇāṁ citra-vājaiḥ śilīmukhaiḥ viplavo ’bhūd duḥkhitānāṁ duḥsahaḥ karuṇātmanām
Synonyms
tatra—there;nirbhinna—being pierced;gātrāṇām—whose bodies;citra-vājaiḥ—with variegated feathers;śilī-mukhaiḥ—by the arrows;viplavaḥ—destruction;abhūt—was done;duḥkhitānām—of the most aggrieved;duḥsahaḥ—unbearable;karuṇa-ātmanām—for persons who are very merciful.
Translation
When King Purañjana was hunting in this way, many animals within the forest lost their lives with great pain, being pierced by the sharp arrowheads. Upon seeing these devastating, ghastly activities performed by the King, all the people who were merciful by nature became very unhappy. Such merciful persons could not tolerate seeing all this killing.
Purport
The devotees are pained to see the hunting and killing of animals in the forest, the wholesale slaughter of animals in the slaughterhouses, and the exploitation of young girls in brothels that function under different names as clubs and societies. Being very much compassionate upon the killing of animals in sacrifice, the great sage Nārada began his instructions to King Prācīnabarhiṣat. In these instructions, Nārada Muni explained that devotees like him are very much afflicted by all the killing that goes on in human society. Not only are saintly persons afflicted by this killing, but even God Himself is afflicted and therefore comes down in the incarnation of Lord Buddha. Jayadeva Gosvāmī therefore sings, sadaya-hṛdaya-darśita-paśu-ghātam: simply to stop the killing of animals, Lord Buddha compassionately appeared. Some rascals put forward the theory that an animal has no soul or is something like dead stone. In this way they rationalize that there is no sin in animal-killing. Actually animals are not dead stone, but the killers of animals are stonehearted. Consequently no reason or philosophy appeals to them. They continue keeping slaughterhouses and killing animals in the forest. The conclusion is that one who does not care for the instructions of saintly persons like Nārada and his disciplic succession surely falls into the category of naṣṭa-prajña and thus goes to hell.