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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.54.12

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 54: Story of Viśvāmitra: Defeat, Śiva’s weapons and retaliation. His army and sons are destroyed, Viśvāmitra wins Śiva’s weapons through austerity and returns to burn Vasiṣṭha’s hermitage

In the sequence: humiliated and desolate, Viśvāmitra installs his surviving son as King and goes to the forest. On the Himālaya's slopes he practices austerity to win Śiva's favor

1.54.12

sa gatvā himavatpārśvaṃ kiṃnaroragasevitam
mahādevaprasādārthaṃ tapas tepe mahātapāḥ

Going to the slopes of Himavat, frequented by kiṃnaras and serpents, the great ascetic practised austerity to win the favour of Mahādeva.

Words: sa — he; gatvā — having gone; himavatpārśvaṃ — to the slope of Himavat; kiṃnaroragasevitam — frequented by kiṃnaras and serpents; mahādevaprasādārthaṃ — for the sake of Mahādeva's favour; tapas — austerity; tepe — practised; mahātapāḥ — the great ascetic

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.