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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.12

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 59: Story of Viśvāmitra: Triśaṅku’s ascent and suspended heaven. Indra rejects the ascending Triśaṅku, Viśvāmitra halts his fall and creates southern stars, the Devas agree to let him remain suspended among them

In the sequence: angrily raising the ladle, he invokes his own accumulated austerity and commands Triśaṅku to ascend → before the munis' eyes, the King rises in his physical body

1.59.12

sruvam udyamya sakrodhas triśaṅkum idam abravīt
paśya me tapaso vīryaṃ svārjitasya nareśvara

raising the sacrificial ladle, in anger said this to Triśaṅku: 'Behold the potency of my self-earned austerity, O lord of men.'

Words: sruvam — the sacrificial ladle; udyamya — having raised; sakrodhas — in anger; triśaṅkum — to Triśaṅku; idam — this; abravīt — said; paśya — behold; me — my; tapaso — of austerity; vīryaṃ — potency, power; svārjitasya — self-earned; nareśvara — O lord of men

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.