The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2610 page)

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VAI
AVA
.
V
lm
ki
.
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

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