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Quotation from The Ramayana by Valmiki
“With equal lines of even feet, With rhythm and time and tone complete, The measured form of words I spoke In shock of grief be termed a śloke.”
The Ramayana, Book I, Canto II (Brahmá's Visit), trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith
Valmiki has just cursed the fowler who shot a curlew and realizes his grief has come out in a new verse form, the sloka.
Citation: "With equal lines of even feet, With rhythm and time and tone complete, The measured form of words I spoke In shock of grief be termed a śloke." — Valmiki, The Ramayana, Book I, Canto II (Brahmá's Visit), trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith. (id ramayana-q1)
Portrait: Meeting of Rama and Parashurama, from the Mewar Ramayana, Manohar of Mewar, Public domain.
