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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.14

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

1.59.14

svārjitaṃ kiṃ cid apy asti mayā hi tapasaḥ phalam
rājaṃs tvaṃ tejasā tasya saśarīro divaṃ vraja

'If there is any fruit at all of austerity self-earned by me, then by the power of that, O king, go to heaven in your own body.'

Words: svārjitaṃ — self-earned; kiṃ cid apy — any at all; asti — there is; mayā — by me; hi — indeed; tapasaḥ — of austerity; phalam — fruit; rājaṃs — O king; tvaṃ — you; tejasā — by the power; tasya — of that; saśarīro — in (your) body; divaṃ — to heaven; vraja — go

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.