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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.56.14
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: Triśaṅku goes south to Vasiṣṭha's hundred sons
1.56.14
triśaṅkuḥ sumahātejāḥ śataṃ paramabhāsvaram
vasiṣṭhaputrān dadṛśe tapyamānān yaśasvinaḥ
Triśaṅku of great splendour beheld the hundred illustrious sons of Vasiṣṭha, exceedingly radiant, practising austerity.
Words: triśaṅkuḥ — Triśaṅku; sumahātejāḥ — of great splendour; śataṃ — a hundred; paramabhāsvaram — exceedingly radiant; vasiṣṭhaputrān — the sons of Vasiṣṭha; dadṛśe — beheld, saw; tapyamānān — practising austerity; yaśasvinaḥ — the illustrious ones
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.