Today the nation celebrates Valmiki Jayanthi, which
is remarked as the birthday of Maharshi Valmiki,the
author of the famous holy epic RAMAYANA....
First poet, Adi Kavi, for he discovered the first sloka
the first verse which set the base and define the form
of Sanskrit poetry ..and he was known as the Father of
Sanskrit classical poetry...
Bhagwan Valmiki is the author of the original Ramayana.
with pleasure, for all Indian saints were intensely awareAn anthill grows up around his stiff body and covers it from sight. The years of penance have purged him and he is now Valmiki, he who emerged from the Valmik- the anthill. One day he was walking along a Tamsa riverbank and happened to observe two doves copulating. The charmingly naïve sight made his heart gladd poor birds, shot by a hunter who had no sporting instincts at all but a very good eye for the main chance. Valmiki was appalled at this cruelty and an astonishing sequence of woren of the presence of the life force, here manifested most  obviously. At the moment an arrow went through thosedsflowed from his mouth in a great curse...
मनिषाद प्रतिष्टतुं सामगः स्सश्वतिस्समः
यत् क्रोउञ्च मिथुनादेकं शोकं अवधिं
"You who have killed one of the birds engaged in the act of love,
thus, may you not yourself live long!"
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