Padukasahasra 3.6

3.6

tiṣṭhantu śrutayastato'pi mahitaṃ jāgarti tatpāduke tattādṛkprathanāya tāvakaguṇagrāmāya rāmāyaṇam |
yasyāsīdaravindasambhavavadhūmañjīraśiñjārava-spardhādurdharapādabaddhabhaṇatirvalmīkajanmā kaviḥ ||

Let the Śrutis stand aside; more exalted even than them, the Rāmāyaṇa awakens to proclaim the host of your virtues of such kind, / whose poet was the ant-hill-born [Vālmīki], whose verse was bound in meter vying with the tinkling sound of the anklets of the bride born from the lotus.