- veracious king named Trishanku, an enhancer of Ikshvaku dynasty. Oh ! Raghava ( Rama ), an idea sprang up in the mind of Trishanku to perform a ritual..... - [1-57-11]
- for the purpose of realising that task, ( such a phantasmal ritual that enables him to go to heaven with his body ) the king approched the sons of Vashishtha. The place where the sons of Vasishta had been performing austerities for a long time,..... - [1-57-14]
- most brilliant Trishanku reached that place. There he visited the hundred noble-souled sons of Vashishta, who were supremely self-luminescent and superbly self-refulgent by their ascesis. [1-57-15]