Valmiki

Maharishi Valmiki is considered as the father of Indian poetry. He is revered as the Adi Kavi, or the poet of poets of the Sanskrit language. He composed the shloka that set the base and defined the form of Sanskrit language. He is famous as the author of the Ramayan, consisting of 24,000 verses.

EARLY YEARS

Valmiki was born to sage Prachetasa, and was called Ratnakar in his childhood. One day, while in the forest, young Ratnakar got lost and was adopted by a hunter. Under the love and care of his foster parents, Ratnakar forgot his own parents. With his foster father’s guidance, Ratnakar trained to be an excellent hunter himself. He was married to a beautiful girl from a hunter’s family. As his family got large, he found it impossible to feed them. As a result, he took to robbery and began looting people passing from one village to another.

Valmiki

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