historical-figureValmikiBeings · Myth & storyThe named poet-sage of later Ramayana memory. Not Vyasa as identity, and not a deity.Vedic traditionValmiki is historically related to Book.Dowson RAMAYANA seats the oldest Sanskrit epic as written by the sage Valmiki — Valmiki authorship kinship toward the book, not Vyasa as identity and not the Ramayana text orphan under one id.from John Dowson · A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, 1879historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesA Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion · John DowsonJohn Dowson, A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion (1879).