Rāmāyaṇacampū 1.95_14

1.95_14

While Viśvāmitra, repeatedly terrified by her army, had acquired the knowledge of various weapons through the power of austerities and once again began battle for the sake of Surabhi, the husband of Arundhatī stood firm, blocking the succession of divine missiles with his staff of Brahmā.
Then he, feeling mortified and deciding that the spiritual luster of a brāhmaṇa is far superior to the martial luster of a kṣatriya, performed extremely intense austerities in the southern quarter for the attainment of that.
Then the solar kṣatriya Triśaṅku, seeking to attain heaven in his own body, was rejected by Vasiṣṭha, and having been reduced to the state of a caṇḍāla by his sons, Mahodaya and others, who were angered by his insistence, took refuge with this very [sage].
He too began a sacrifice for the fulfillment of his desire.