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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.54.13

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: Śiva appears and offers a boon → Viśvāmitra asks for Dhanurveda (the science of archery), with its subsidiary disciplines and secrets, and the astras of Devas, dānavas, maharṣis, gandharvas, yakṣas and rākṣasas → Śiva grants the request and departs

1.54.13

kena cit tv atha kālena deveśo vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ
darśayām āsa varado viśvāmitraṃ mahāmunim

Then after some time the lord of gods, whose emblem is the bull, the giver of boons, showed himself to Viśvāmitra, the great sage.

Words: kena cit — some; tv — and; atha — then; kālena — after a time; deveśo — the lord of gods; vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ — whose banner is the bull (Śiva); darśayām āsa — showed (himself), appeared; varado — the giver of boons; viśvāmitraṃ — to Viśvāmitra; mahāmunim — the great sage

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.