“This is truly how I remember the ways of the world. Those words I cursed him with make a verse, and that verse could be sung to music.”

— Vālmīki

In. p. 7.
He remembered these words uttered in a verse form, when he got back to his hermitage. It was then that Brahma appeared before him.

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