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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.19

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: Indra rejects him as one afflicted by his teacher's curse and orders him to fall headfirst → falling, Triśaṅku cries to Viśvāmitra for help. Viśvāmitra commands him to stop

1.59.19

tac chrutvā vacanaṃ tasya krośamānasya kauśikaḥ
roṣam āhārayat tīvraṃ tiṣṭha tiṣṭheti cābravīt

Hearing that cry of his as he wailed, Kauśika conceived fierce anger and said, 'Stay! Stay!'

Words: tac — that; chrutvā — having heard; vacanaṃ — the cry, word; tasya — his; krośamānasya — of (him) wailing; kauśikaḥ — Kauśika (Viśvāmitra); roṣam — anger, wrath; āhārayat — conceived, summoned up; tīvraṃ — fierce, intense; tiṣṭha tiṣṭheti — 'stay, stay!' thus; cābravīt — and said

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.