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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.57.8

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: Triśaṅku says he will seek another refuge → they curse him to become a caṇḍāla, an outcast

1.57.8

ṛṣiputrās tu tac chrutvā vākyaṃ ghorābhisaṃhitam
śepuḥ paramasaṃkruddhāś caṇḍālatvaṃ gamiṣyasi
evam uktvā mahātmāno viviśus te svam āśramam

But the seer's sons, hearing that speech fraught with dire import, being greatly enraged, cursed him: 'You shall become a caṇḍāla!' Having spoken thus, those great-souled ones entered their own hermitage.

Words: ṛṣiputrās — the seer's sons; tu — but; tac — that; chrutvā — having heard; vākyaṃ — speech; ghorābhisaṃhitam — fraught with dire (import); śepuḥ — cursed; paramasaṃkruddhāś — greatly enraged; caṇḍālatvaṃ — the state of a caṇḍāla; gamiṣyasi — you shall go, become; evam uktvā — having spoken thus; mahātmāno — the great-souled ones; viviśus — entered; te — they; svam āśramam — their own hermitage

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.