[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.3302 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3302 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3302 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3302](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3302) 8) Triśaṅku Svarga (Heaven of Triśaṅku). Viśvāmitra promised Triśaṅku that he would send him to heaven bodily and made preparations for a yāga. No other sage partook in the yāga because of instructions from Vasiṣṭha. But undaunted, Viśvāmitra conducted the yāga alone and, as the power of his performances increased, Triśaṅku started rising bodily from earth slowly and soon rose up to heaven. When the devas found a Caṇḍāla standing with his physical body before the gates of heaven, they ran to Indra and told him. Indra got angry and pushed him out from heaven and Triśaṅku came falling down with his head turned downwards to the earth. Triśaṅku cried loudly calling Viśvāmitra by name. When Viśvāmitra, hearing the noise, looked up he saw poor Triśaṅku descending fast from heaven with his head turned upside down. Viśvāmitra’s anger knew no bounds and he roared aloud “Let Triśaṅku stay where he is now.” Triśaṅku stopped in mid-air. Indra did not allow Triśaṅku to come up and Viśvāmitra did not allow him to come down. Indra then made a separate heaven for Triśaṅku below the original heaven. Then Viśvāmitra started to create another Indra and devas for the new heaven. The devas were frightened and Indra then approached Viśvāmitra and requested him to desist from his attempt to make duplicate devas promising him that he would give Triśaṅku a seat in his heaven itself. Viśvāmitra agreed to it. At once Indra brought a golden Vimāna and took him bodily to heaven. (Sargas 57 to 59, Bālakāṇḍa, Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 7th Skandha, Devī Bhāgavata; 9th Skandha, Bhāgavata; Chapter 13, Harivaṃśa; Sundara Kāṇḍa, Kamba Rāmāyaṇa; Chapter 71, Ādi Parva; Chapter 12, Sabhā Parva). - [Previous: c9.3301](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3301) - [Next: c9.3303](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3303) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) ## Cites (5) - [Devībhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata) — Sanskrit - [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Harivaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3302](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3302) · Pramāṇa