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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.62.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 62: Story of Viśvāmitra: Menakā and the unfinished mastery of desire. Menakā interrupts his austerity for ten years, renewed effort wins the rank of maharṣi, but Brahmā withholds brahmarṣi until his senses are mastered

In the sequence: realizing how much time he has lost, he becomes ashamed and interprets the interruption as the Suras' design against his austerity

1.62.10

buddhir muneḥ samutpannā sāmarṣā raghunandana
sarvaṃ surāṇāṃ karmaitat tapo'paharaṇaṃ mahat

A thought, full of indignation, arose in the sage, O delight of the Raghus: “All this is the work of the gods, a great robbing of my austerity.

Words: buddhir — a thought; muneḥ — in the sage; samutpannā — arose; sāmarṣā — full of indignation; raghunandana — O delight of the Raghus; sarvaṃ — all; surāṇāṃ — of the gods; karmaitat — this is the work; tapo'paharaṇaṃ — the robbing of (my) austerity; mahat — great

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.