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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.22
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
1.59.22
sṛṣṭvā nakṣatravaṃśaṃ ca krodhena kaluṣīkṛtaḥ
anyam indraṃ kariṣyāmi loko vā syād anindrakaḥ
daivatāny api sa krodhāt sraṣṭuṃ samupacakrame
Having created a lineage of constellations, and darkened by anger, (crying) 'I will make another Indra, or let the world be without an Indra!'—out of anger he set about creating even new deities.
Words: sṛṣṭvā — having created; nakṣatravaṃśaṃ — a lineage of constellations; ca — and; krodhena — by anger; kaluṣīkṛtaḥ — darkened, made turbid; anyam indraṃ — another Indra; kariṣyāmi — I will make; loko vā — or the world; syād — may be; anindrakaḥ — without an Indra; daivatāny api — even the deities; sa — he; krodhāt — out of anger; sraṣṭuṃ — to create; samupacakrame — began, set about
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.