The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2610 page)
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AVA
V
lm
ki
.
lmki.
Legendary author of the epic
R
m
ya
a
, which he claimed to have visualized in the
Vedas
; in fact,
R
m
ya
a
bears signs of different layers of composition, but V
lm
ki may have been a
ku
lava
(‘bard’) who introduced the
loka
, the epic metre of two lines, each of two parts with eight syllables in each, which was used also for much of
Mah
bh
rata
. To him is attributed another epic work,
Yoga
-Vaisi
tha
R
myaa, which he claimed to have visualized in the
Vedas
; in fact,
R
myaabears signs of different layers of composition, but V
lmki may have been aku
lava(‘bard’) who introduced the
loka, the epic metre of two lines, each of two parts with eight syllables in each, which was used also for much of
Mah
bhrata. To him is attributed another epic work,
Yoga
-Vaisi
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