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the first poet - a) Brahma, who is supposed to have produced and promulgated the Vedas; b) Vālmīki, considered as the first to show other Samskřta poets, 'the path of poetry'; c) Pampa, the first recognised poet, with his immortal and unsurpassed Kannaḍa classical works 'Vikramārjuna Vijaya' and 'Ādipurāṇa'.