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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.56.12
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 56: Story of Viśvāmitra: The rājarṣi rank and Triśaṅku’s request. Brahmā grants Viśvāmitra the rank of rājarṣi, he resumes austerity while Triśaṅku seeks bodily ascent to heaven and is refused by Vasiṣṭha
In the sequence: Vasiṣṭha declares it impossible
1.56.12
sa vasiṣṭhaṃ samāhūya kathayām āsa cintitam
aśakyam iti cāpy ukto vasiṣṭhena mahātmanā
He, summoning Vasiṣṭha, told him what he had in mind; but he was told by the great-souled Vasiṣṭha, 'It is impossible.'
Words: sa — he; vasiṣṭhaṃ — Vasiṣṭha; samāhūya — having summoned; kathayām āsa — told, related; cintitam — what he had in mind, his thought; aśakyam — impossible, not to be done; iti — thus; cāpy — and also; ukto — told; vasiṣṭhena — by Vasiṣṭha; mahātmanā — the great-souled
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.