Valmiki was a legendary poet and Hindu maharishi who is celebrated as the traditional author of the smriti epic Ramayana, one of Hinduism's two Itihasas, based on the attribution in the text itself. H
Sage Valmiki composing the Ramayana
The youthful sage Narada at the white-bearded Valmiki's hermitage
A fowler kills a bird and the cry of its mate gives Valmiki the measures in which he composes the Ramayana
Valmiki and the death of the Sarus crane
Balmikism or Valmikism is a Hindu sect that reveres the sage Valmiki as an ancestor and patron saint. Followers hold that Valmiki was an avatar of God and regard his works, the Ramayana and the Yoga V
A Valmiki ashram in Southall, United Kingdom