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	'''Valmiki''' ({{IPAc-en\|v\|ɑː\|l\|ˈ\|m\|iː\|k\|i}};<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/valmiki "Valmiki"]. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.</ref> [[Sanskrit]]: वाल्मीकि, '''{{transl\|sa\|ISO\|Vālmīki}}''' {{IPA-sa\|ʋɑːlmiːki\|}}){{efn-ua\|Valmiki is also known by devotees as Balmiki, Lal Beg and Bala Shah.<ref~~>{{cite book \|title~~=~~Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes \|date=2000 \|publisher=Institute for Sustainable Development \|isbn=978-81-261-0655-4 \|page=479 \|language=en}}<~~/~~ref~~><ref name="O'Brien2006">{{cite book \|last1=O'Brien \|first1=John \|title=The Construction of Pakistani Christian Identity \|date=2006 \|publisher=Research Society of Pakistan \|isbn=978-969-425-096-0 \|page=125 \|language=en}}</ref>}} is celebrated as the [[wikt:harbinger\|harbinger]]-[[poet]] in [[Sanskrit literature]].<ref name="ISD2000">{{cite book \|title=Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes \|date=2000 \|publisher=Institute for Sustainable Development \|isbn=978-81-261-0655-4 \|page=479 \|language=en}}</ref> The epic ''[[Ramayana]]'', dated variously from the 5th century BCE<ref>{{cite news\|title=All Indian life is here\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/aug/23/art.ramayana\|access-date=27 April 2015\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=23 August 2008\|quote="Read 5th Paragraph"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/was-ram-born-in-ayodhya/articleshow/77380259.cms\|title=Was Ram born in Ayodhya\|first=Devdutt\|last=Pattanaik\|website=mumbaimirror\| date=8 August 2020}}</ref> to first century BCE,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Sri Aurobindo on the Indian Epic Ramayana\|url=http://uwf.edu/lgoel/documents/asriaurobindoonindianepicramayana.pdf\|website=uwf.edu\|publisher=University of West Florida\|access-date=27 April 2015\|page=2\|quote=read end paragraph of page 2}}</ref> is attributed to him, based on the attribution in the text itself.<ref name="Golgman1">{{cite book \| author = Valmiki, Robert P. Goldman \| title = {{IAST\|The Ramayana of Valmiki}}: An Epic of Ancient India \| volume = 1 \| publisher = Princeton University Press \| year = 1990 \| pages = [https://archive.org/details/ramayanaofva01valm/page/14 14–15] \| isbn = 0-691-01485-X \| url-access = registration \| url = https://archive.org/details/ramayanaofva01valm/page/14 }}</ref> He is revered as ''Ādi Kavi'', the first poet, author of ''Ramayana'', the first epic poem.		'''Valmiki''' ({{IPAc-en\|v\|ɑː\|l\|ˈ\|m\|iː\|k\|i}};<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/valmiki "Valmiki"]. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.</ref> [[Sanskrit]]: वाल्मीकि, '''{{transl\|sa\|ISO\|Vālmīki}}''' {{IPA-sa\|ʋɑːlmiːki\|}}){{efn-ua\|Valmiki is also known by devotees as Balmiki, Lal Beg and Bala Shah.<ref name="ISD2000"/><ref name="O'Brien2006">{{cite book \|last1=O'Brien \|first1=John \|title=The Construction of Pakistani Christian Identity \|date=2006 \|publisher=Research Society of Pakistan \|isbn=978-969-425-096-0 \|page=125 \|language=en}}</ref>}} is celebrated as the [[wikt:harbinger\|harbinger]]-[[poet]] in [[Sanskrit literature]].<ref name="ISD2000">{{cite book \|title=Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes \|date=2000 \|publisher=Institute for Sustainable Development \|isbn=978-81-261-0655-4 \|page=479 \|language=en}}</ref> The epic ''[[Ramayana]]'', dated variously from the 5th century BCE<ref>{{cite news\|title=All Indian life is here\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/aug/23/art.ramayana\|access-date=27 April 2015\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=23 August 2008\|quote="Read 5th Paragraph"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/was-ram-born-in-ayodhya/articleshow/77380259.cms\|title=Was Ram born in Ayodhya\|first=Devdutt\|last=Pattanaik\|website=mumbaimirror\| date=8 August 2020}}</ref> to first century BCE,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Sri Aurobindo on the Indian Epic Ramayana\|url=http://uwf.edu/lgoel/documents/asriaurobindoonindianepicramayana.pdf\|website=uwf.edu\|publisher=University of West Florida\|access-date=27 April 2015\|page=2\|quote=read end paragraph of page 2}}</ref> is attributed to him, based on the attribution in the text itself.<ref name="Golgman1">{{cite book \| author = Valmiki, Robert P. Goldman \| title = {{IAST\|The Ramayana of Valmiki}}: An Epic of Ancient India \| volume = 1 \| publisher = Princeton University Press \| year = 1990 \| pages = [https://archive.org/details/ramayanaofva01valm/page/14 14–15] \| isbn = 0-691-01485-X \| url-access = registration \| url = https://archive.org/details/ramayanaofva01valm/page/14 }}</ref> He is revered as ''Ādi Kavi'', the first poet, author of ''Ramayana'', the first epic poem.

	The ''Ramayana'', originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 [[shloka]]s and seven [[canto]]s (kaṇḍas).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Valmiki Ramayan \|url=https://valmikiramayan.net/ \|website=valmikiramayan.net \|publisher=Desiraju Hanumanta Rao & K. M. K. Murthy \|access-date=11 May 2020}}</ref> The {{IAST\|Ramayana}} is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' or about four times the length of the ''[[Iliad]]''. The ''Ramayana'' tells the story of a prince, [[Rama]] of the city of [[Ayodhya]] in the [[Kosala\|Kingdom of Kosala]], whose wife [[Sita]] is abducted by [[Ravana]], the demon-king ([[Asura]]) of [[Lanka]]. Valmiki's ''Ramayana'' is dated variously from 500 BCE to 100 BCE<ref>{{cite web\|title=harking back : Myths and facts of the beginnings of Lahore\|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1111338}}</ref> or about co-eval with early versions of the ''Mahabharata''.<ref>Goldman, Robert P., ''The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India'' pp. 23</ref> As with many traditional epics, it has gone through a process of interpolations and redactions, making it impossible to date accurately.		The ''Ramayana'', originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 [[shloka]]s and seven [[canto]]s (kaṇḍas).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Valmiki Ramayan \|url=https://valmikiramayan.net/ \|website=valmikiramayan.net \|publisher=Desiraju Hanumanta Rao & K. M. K. Murthy \|access-date=11 May 2020}}</ref> The {{IAST\|Ramayana}} is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' or about four times the length of the ''[[Iliad]]''. The ''Ramayana'' tells the story of a prince, [[Rama]] of the city of [[Ayodhya]] in the [[Kosala\|Kingdom of Kosala]], whose wife [[Sita]] is abducted by [[Ravana]], the demon-king ([[Asura]]) of [[Lanka]]. Valmiki's ''Ramayana'' is dated variously from 500 BCE to 100 BCE<ref>{{cite web\|title=harking back : Myths and facts of the beginnings of Lahore\|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1111338}}</ref> or about co-eval with early versions of the ''Mahabharata''.<ref>Goldman, Robert P., ''The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India'' pp. 23</ref> As with many traditional epics, it has gone through a process of interpolations and redactions, making it impossible to date accurately.
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	== Role in ''Ramayana'' ==		== Role in ''Ramayana'' ==
	Valmiki played an important role in ''Uttara Kanda,'' the last chapter of epic ''Ramayana''. It is believed that The Uttara Kanda was not original work of Valmiki. It is believed to be taken up from ''Sesha Ramayana.'' According to the legend Rama send Sita to forest. Sita finds refuge in Sage [[Valmiki]]'s ashram, where she gives birth to twin boys [[Lava (Ramayana)\|Lava]] and [[Kusha (Ramayana)\|Kusha]]. Lava and Kusha were Valmiki's first disciples to whom he taught the ''[[Ramayana]]''. [[Balakanda\|Bala Kanda]] of the epic also telling the story of Valmiki narrating the Ramayana to his disciples Lava and Kusha.<ref>{{Cite book\|last1=Rao\|first1=T. S. Sha ma\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRnDAgAAQBAJ&q=Lava+kusha\|title=Lava Kusha\|last2=Litent\|date=2014-01-01\|publisher=Litent\|language=en}}</ref>		Valmiki played an important role in ''Uttara Kanda,'' the last chapter of epic ''Ramayana''. It is believed that The Uttara Kanda was not original work of Valmiki. It is believed to be taken up from ''Sesha Ramayana.'' According to the legend Rama send Sita to forest. Sita finds refuge in Sage Valmiki's ashram, where she gives birth to twin boys [[Lava (Ramayana)\|Lava]] and [[Kusha (Ramayana)\|Kusha]]. Lava and Kusha were Valmiki's first disciples to whom he taught the ''[[Ramayana]]''. [[Balakanda\|Bala Kanda]] of the epic also telling the story of Valmiki narrating the Ramayana to his disciples Lava and Kusha.<ref>{{Cite book\|last1=Rao\|first1=T. S. Sha ma\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRnDAgAAQBAJ&q=Lava+kusha\|title=Lava Kusha\|last2=Litent\|date=2014-01-01\|publisher=Litent\|language=en}}</ref>

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	'''Maharishi Valmiki''' ({{lang-sa\|वाल्मीकि}}, ''vālmīki'') (during Lord Rama's time)<ref>Julia Leslie, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=466QEN_Av4MC Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki]'', Ashgate (2003), p. 154. {{ISBN\|0754634310}}</ref> is celebrated as the poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic ''[[Ramayana]]'', based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself.<ref name="Golgman1">{{cite book \| author = Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman \| title = {{IAST\|The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki}}: An Epic of Ancient India \| volume = 1 \| publisher = Princeton University Press \| year = 1990 \| pages = 14–15 \| isbn = 069101485X}}</ref> He is revered as the ''Adi Kavi,'' which means ''First Poet,'' for he discovered the first ''[[shloka\|śloka]]'' i.e. first ''verse'', which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.		'''Maharishi Valmiki''' ({{lang-sa\|वाल्मीकि}}, ''vālmīki'') (during Lord Rama's time)<ref>Julia Leslie, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=466QEN_Av4MC Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki]'', Ashgate (2003), p. 154. {{ISBN\|0754634310}}</ref> is celebrated as the poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic ''[[Ramayana]]'', based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself.<ref name="Golgman1">{{cite book \| author = Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman \| title = {{IAST\|The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki}}: An Epic of Ancient India \| volume = 1 \| publisher = Princeton University Press \| year = 1990 \| pages = 14–15 \| isbn = 069101485X}}</ref> He is revered as the ''Adi Kavi,'' which means ''First Poet,'' for he discovered the first ''[[shloka\|śloka]]'' i.e. first ''verse'', which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.

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'''Maharishi Valmiki''' ({{lang-sa|वाल्मीकि}}, ''vālmīki'') (during Lord Rama's time)<ref>Julia Leslie, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=466QEN_Av4MC Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki]'', Ashgate (2003), p. 154. {{ISBN|0754634310}}</ref> is celebrated as the poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic ''[[Ramayana]]'', based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself.<ref name="Golgman1">{{cite book | author = Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman | title = {{IAST|The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki}}: An Epic of Ancient India | volume = 1 | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 1990 | pages = 14–15 | isbn = 069101485X}}</ref> He is revered as the ''Adi Kavi,'' which means ''First Poet,'' for he discovered the first ''[[shloka|śloka]]'' i.e. first ''verse'', which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.

At least by the 1st century AD, Valmiki's reputation as the father of Sanskrit classical poetry seems to have been legendary.

==== Role in ''Ramayana'' ====
Valmiki played an important role in ''Uttara Kanda,'' the last chapter of epic ''Ramayana''. It is believed that The Uttara Kanda was not original work of Valmiki. It is believed to be taken up from ''Sesha Ramayana.'' According to the legend Rama send Sita to forest. Sita finds refuge in Sage [[Valmiki]]'s ashram, where she gives birth to twin boys [[Lava (Ramayana)|Lava]] (founder of '''[[Lahore]]''') and [[Kusha (Ramayana)|Kusha]] (founder of '''[[Kasur]]''') . Lava and Kusha were Valmiki's first disciples to whom he taught the ''[[Ramayana]]''. [[Balakanda|Bala Kanda]] of the epic also telling the story of Valmiki narrating the Ramayana to his disciples Lava and Kusha.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Rao|first1=T. S. Sha ma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRnDAgAAQBAJ&q=Lava+kusha|title=Lava Kusha|last2=Litent|date=2014-01-01|publisher=Litent|language=en}}</ref>

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