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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.54.8

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

1.54.8

dṛṣṭvā vināśitān putrān balaṃ ca sumahāyaśāḥ
savrīḍaś cintayāviṣṭo viśvāmitro 'bhavat tadā

Seeing his sons and his army destroyed, the very illustrious Viśvāmitra then became filled with shame and sunk in thought.

Words: dṛṣṭvā — having seen; vināśitān — destroyed; putrān — sons; balaṃ ca — and the army; sumahāyaśāḥ — of very great fame; savrīḍaś — filled with shame; cintayāviṣṭo — overcome by thought; viśvāmitro — Viśvāmitra; 'bhavat — became; tadā — then

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.