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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.13

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

1.59.13

eṣa tvāṃ svaśarīreṇa nayāmi svargam ojasā
duṣprāpaṃ svaśarīreṇa divaṃ gaccha narādhipa

'Here I lead you, in your own body, to heaven by my might; go, O ruler of men, to that heaven so hard to reach in one's own body.'

Words: eṣa — here (I); tvāṃ — you; svaśarīreṇa — in your own body; nayāmi — I lead; svargam — to heaven; ojasā — by (my) might; duṣprāpaṃ — hard to reach; svaśarīreṇa — in one's own body; divaṃ — to heaven; gaccha — go; narādhipa — O ruler 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.