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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.62.9

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

1.62.9

atha kāle gate tasmin viśvāmitro mahāmuniḥ
savrīḍa iva saṃvṛttaś cintāśokaparāyaṇaḥ

Then, when that time had passed, the great sage Viśvāmitra became as if ashamed, given over to anxiety and grief.

Words: atha — then; kāle gate tasmin — when that time had passed; viśvāmitro — Viśvāmitra; mahāmuniḥ — the great sage; savrīḍa — ashamed, abashed; iva — as if; saṃvṛttaś — became; cintāśokaparāyaṇaḥ — given over to anxiety and grief

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.