They also came upon a holy hermit, who gave Rama a splendid bow and arrow created by the gods. A timeless epic, it recounts the legend of the noble prince Rama and his. Tulsidas, who wrote the Ramcharitmanas, is thought to be the incarnation of sage Valmiki. On their journey the three exiles came across the poet Valmiki, who promised to write a glorious epic about them called the Ramayana. The Valmiki Ramayana remains a living force in the lives of the Indian people. Scholars believe now that Valmiki and the Ramayana can be dated to between 500 BCE to 100 BCE. They were his first disciples and he taught them the story of Lord Ram. Because the Ramayana has been changed and embellished so much over the years, its impossible to date either Valmikis life or when he wrote the Ramayana. Last updated: JWhen was the original version written and by whomWas it written or oral Valmiki around 550 BCEOral. Sage Valmiki is also a featured character in Ramayana who received Sita into his hermitage and taught her sons, Luv and Kush during their exile period. The Ramayana of Valmiki (Norton Anthology Of World Literature Volume A 3rd ed.) Topic: Family, Life & Experiences Friends.
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Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of another Hindu epic Mahabharata or about four times the length of the Iliad, the ancient Greek epic poem. His epic is also called the Valmiki Ramayana which has 24,000 verses and 7 cantos ( kandas) including the Uttara canto. Maharishi Valmiki composed the entire Ramayana with the guidance of Vedic sage Narad Muni and blessings of Lord Brahma. Most of the historians are convinced with such arguments. Since the beginning, scholars doubted authenticity of the first and the last Kanda of the Ramayana i.
Presently, Valmiki Ramayana has 24000 verses in seven books (Kandas). Valmiki Jayanti celebrates the birthday of the famous poet and falls on October 13, Sunday, this year. Keywords: Valmiki, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Epic, Gender. He also invented shloka or verses, which defined the form to Sanskrit poetry. Maharishi Valmiki is the adi kavi or the first poet in Sanskrit literature who authored the holy epic Ramayana, also the first kavya or poetry.