Valmiki
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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
Lanka
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Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary Rakshasa king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The fortress was situated on a plateau bet
The golden abode of King Ravana
Hanuman sets fire to Lanka.
Hanuman Watches Lanka Burn, Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi, 1916