In the canon
Rama the Steadfast
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 400 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Sanskrit
- Pages
- Pages 450
Grief made the meter. Tradition holds that Valmiki watched a hunter shoot one of a pair of birds in the middle of their courting, and the cry that broke out of him fell into a rhythm nobody had used before: the shloka, the couplet this vast poem is built from.
Firm in his faith, of steadfast will, He sought no wrong, he spoke no ill:
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