Triśaṅku
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 15 anchored passages
descendant of Ikṣvāku
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A truth-speaking king of the Ikṣvāku lineage who resolves to reach heaven in his own body, is refused by Vasiṣṭha, and seeks help from Vasiṣṭha's sons.
He summoned Vasiṣṭha and told him his thought;
At this very time, a truth-speaking, sense-conquering descendant of the Ikṣvāku lineage, known by the name Triśaṅku,
Refused by Vasiṣṭha, he went to the southern quarter, to the place where the sons of Vasiṣṭha were performing their long austerities.
Paryantapañcāśikā
The mythological king Triśaṅku, invoked as a simile for a being suspended between the sky of consciousness and the ground of inert matter.
The four powers that reside within this person, sustaining within him both the sky of consciousness and the ground of inert matter, are made of māyā, [poised] like Triśaṅku [between the two].