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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.21

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: standing among the ṛṣis like a second creator, he makes another Saptarṣis and new constellations in the southern sky → he threatens to create another Indra or a world without Indra and begins forming new devatās

1.59.21

nakṣatramālām aparām asṛjat krodhamūrchitaḥ
dakṣiṇāṃ diśam āsthāya munimadhye mahāyaśāḥ

and, insensate with anger, created a new garland of constellations, taking his stand in the southern quarter, in the midst of the sages, that one of great fame.

Words: nakṣatramālām — a garland of constellations; aparām — another, new; asṛjat — created; krodhamūrchitaḥ — insensate with anger; dakṣiṇāṃ diśam — the southern quarter; āsthāya — having taken his stand in; munimadhye — in the midst of the sages; mahāyaśāḥ — of great fame

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.