Valmiki

Valmiki (6th Century BC) was a great saint and Sanskrit poet of ancient India. He composed the Ramayana, one of the most important religious book of the Hindus. This epic depicts the life of Lord Ram, the god of Hindu's.

He had been a hunter and a highway robber in his early life when he was known by the name of Ranakar. He was reclaimed by the seven seers and eventually turned out a great seer and poet.

As the story goes, the saints instructed him in the holy name of Ram. Completely immersed in sin he was, however, unable to utter the word. The seers, therefore, asked him to repeat the name in the reverse order. In this way he was eventually able to utter the name correctly and in course of time became so fond of repeating it that he ultimately turned out to be a pious sage and seer and related the story of Sri Ram in fine verse even before His advent.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Where the land is kingless, the clouds, lightning-wreathed

and loud-voiced, gives no rains to the earth.
Where the land is kingless, the son does not honour his
father, nor the wife her husband.
Where the land is kingless, men do not meet in assemblies,
nor make lovely gardens and temples.
Where the land in kingless, the rich are unprotected,
and herd-keepers and peasants sleep with bolted doors.
A river without water, a forest without grass,
a herd of cattle without a herdsman, is the land without a king.
-Ramayana

Charvak the atheist

Nearby pages
Valmiki Nagar, Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha Constituency, Valmiki Nagar Vidhan Sabha Constituency, Valmiki the tribe, Valmy