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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.25.19

నానారణ్యమృగవ్రాతైరనాబాధే మునివ్రతై: । ఆహూతం మన్యతే పాన్థో యత్ర కోకిలకూజితై: ॥ ౧౯ ॥
nānāraṇya-mṛga-vrātair
[naanaaranya-mriga-vraatair]
anābādhe muni-vrataiḥ
[anaabaadhe muni-vrataih]
āhūtaṁ manyate pāntho
[aahootam manyate paantho]
yatra kokila-kūjitaiḥ
[yatra kokila-koojitaih]
Word-for-word
nānā — various araṇya — forest mṛga — animals vrātaiḥ — with groups anābādhe — in the matter of nonviolence muni-vrataiḥ — like the great sages āhūtam — as if invited manyate — thinks pānthaḥ — passenger yatra — where kokila — of cuckoos kūjitaiḥ — by the cooing.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
nānāraṇya-mṛga-vrātair
nānā
various
araṇya
forest
mṛga
animals
vrātaiḥ
with groups
anābādhe muni-vrataiḥ
anābādhe
in the matter of nonviolence
muni-vrataiḥ
like the great sages
āhūtaṁ manyate pāntho
āhūtam
as if invited
manyate
thinks
pānthaḥ
passenger
yatra kokila-kūjitaiḥ
yatra
where
kokila
of cuckoos
kūjitaiḥ
by the cooing.
In such an atmosphere even the animals of the forest became nonviolent and nonenvious like great sages. Consequently, the animals did not attack anyone. Over and above everything was the cooing of the cuckoos. Any passenger passing along that path was invited by that atmosphere to take rest in that nice garden.
Purport

A peaceful family with wife and children is compared to the peaceful atmosphere of the forest. Children are compared to nonviolent animals. Sometimes, however, wives and children are called svajanākhya-dasyu, burglars in the name of kinsmen. A man earns his livelihood with hard labor, but the result is that he is plundered by his wife and children exactly as a person in a forest is attacked by some thieves and burglars who take his money. Nonetheless, in family life the turmoil of wife and children appears to be like the cooing of the cuckoos in the garden of family life. Being invited by such an atmosphere, the person who is passing through such a blissful family life desires to have his family with him at all costs.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Outside the city in groves of beautiful trees and creepers, with ponds resounding with the cries of flocks of birds and humming of bees, with lakes having banks abundant with lotuses and trees, whose branches moved in the spring wind laden with water drops from cool waterfalls, where cuckoos warbled as if calling out to travelers, there were various non-violent forest animals free of troubles, and no violent animals. In three verses, the variety of sense objects are described as the various items in the grove outside the city, in order to convey how the jīva becomes fixed in his body by concentrating on sense objects.
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