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Why can’t the traditional claim that Valmiki was Rama’s contemporary be used to date the Ramayana, according to mainstream textual scholarship?

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1. Why can’t the traditional claim that Valmiki was Rama’s contemporary be used to date the Ramayana, according to mainstream textual scholarship?

Because Valmiki is a purely fictional character invented centuries later

Because Sanskrit didn’t exist yet in Rama’s traditional lifetime

Because that chronology comes from within the tradition itself, with no independent outside corroboration

Because Bala Kanda states a different, contradictory date

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