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This is the earliest author considered in an essay that ends with a story of an “uncultured dolt” who variously tastes dessert and dog urine while asleep at a poetry recital. An invocation praises this “bird of charming song” who “mounts on Poesy’s sublimest spray.” This author legendarily cried out, “You will find no rest for the long years of eternity,” thereby inventing a 32-syllable verse form, (-5[1])when he saw a hunter kill one (-5[1])of two mating cranes. (10[2])This author (10[1])asks if anyone in the world is endowed with all virtues at the start of a work in which he teaches archery to twin boys at his hermitage. That (10[1])poem by this creator of the shloka (-5[1])is reenacted in līlā plays (10[2]-5[1])and was retold in the vernacular (10[1]-5[1])Awadhī (“UH-wuh-dee”) language by Tulsīdās. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, name this sage (10[1])and attributed author of an epic (-5[1])about the husband of Sita, (10[1])the Ramayana. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[2])

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