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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.57.12

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 57: Story of Viśvāmitra: Triśaṅku’s curse and appeal for refuge. Vasiṣṭha’s sons reject and curse Triśaṅku, his followers abandon him and he asks Viśvāmitra to overcome his fate

In the sequence: alone and distressed, he approaches Viśvāmitra, who receives him with compassion and asks what happened

1.57.12

viśvāmitras tu taṃ dṛṣṭvā rājānaṃ viphalīkṛtam
caṇḍālarūpiṇaṃ rāma muniḥ kāruṇyam āgataḥ

But Viśvāmitra the sage, seeing that king brought to ruin, in the form of a caṇḍāla, O Rāma, was moved to compassion.

Words: viśvāmitras — Viśvāmitra; tu — but; taṃ — him; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; rājānaṃ — the king; viphalīkṛtam — brought to ruin, made fruitless; caṇḍālarūpiṇaṃ — in the form of a caṇḍāla; rāma — O Rāma; muniḥ — the sage; kāruṇyam — compassion, pity; āgataḥ — came to, was moved to

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.