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'.